cv | Nilay Patel

Full Name	Nilay Patel
Languages	English, German (beginner)

2022→
Ph.D. in Computer Science

University of California, Santa Cruz
- Working with Jeff Flanigan and JLab on NLP problems
2020→2021
M.S. in Natural Language Processing

University of California, Santa Cruz
- GPA: 3.93
2016→2020
B.S. in Computer Science, Applied Math

Florida State Univeristy
- GPA: 3.70 (3.91 in major) cum laude

Mathematics	Real Analysis, Measure Theory, Group & Ring Theory, Abstract Linear Algebra
AI/NLP	NLP (I-III), Advanced Deep Learning, Data Wrangling
Miscellaneous	Linguistics (for Computer Scientists), Advanced Algorithms

2023
Applied Scientist Intern

Amazon AI
- Working on state-of-the-art NLP/AI research in question answering.
2020, 2021→2022
Software Engineer

Cognitive GeoInterpretation Inc.
- Designed and productionized state-of-the-art geophysical image segmentation AI.
  - Researched and implemented new methods for improving AI image segmentation performance
  - Improved overall AI training and inference speed
  - A complete (solo) redesign and rewrite of our data storage and loading software to improve speed, scalability, usability, and maintainability (halved total code).
2018
Frontend Software Developer

Diverse Computing Inc.
- Developed web applications for various law enforcement applications. Responsibilities included:
  - Developing the front-end in AngularJS
  - Writing comprehensive end-to-end test suites
  - Designing efficient databases
2014→2020

Private tutor

Self-employed

Natural Language Processing
- Compositional models of language
- Autoformalization (translating natural-language math to a formalized language)
- Automated Theorem Proving
- Machine translation, especially low-resource
Machine Learning
- Interpretability and designing intuitive models
- Reasoning (formal and commensense)
Mathematics (as a hobby)
- Statistics/Probability
- Category Theory