Amrita Saha
researcher
research
IBM Research
India
Biography
Amrita has been working at IBM Research Lab, India (Bangalore) as a research software engineer for the last four years in the Cognitive Text and Services team, which works on a variety of text, and image analytics based solutions catering to a large domain of applications. Apart from her individual research interest in various text/analytics problems, she is part of the core team at IBM, which is developing a Computational Argumentation Framework where machines can argue and debate with humans over any open-ended topic of controversy. Amrita has been working at IBM Research Lab, India (Bangalore) as a research software engineer for the last four years in the Cognitive Text and Services team, which works on a variety of text, and image analytics based solutions catering to a large domain of applications. Apart from her individual research interest in various text/analytics problems, she is part of the core team at IBM, which is developing a Computational Argumentation Framework where machines can argue and debate with humans over any open-ended topic of controversy.
Research Interest
Amrita has been working both on various core problems in Machine Learning like kernel learning, structured prediction, unsupervised graph learning, as well as various applications in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval over the last six years. Recently she has been keenly interested in Deep Learning for various problems in Representation learning, Natural Language Processing and Image Processing problems, especially exploring multilingual and multimodal applications.For the past four years she has been working as a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research, India, prior to which she did her Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Previous to this, she had worked extensively on Wireless Sensor Network Security during her Bachelor Course in Information Technology and have had a few publications in that area.