Monisha Jegadeesan fl +91 9035212894

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Software Engineer, Google monisha-jega
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Education
2015-2020 Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India CGPA: 8.78
2015 XII - Karnataka Board, KLE Society’s Independent PU College, Bangalore 97.30 %
2013 X - ICSE, B P Indian Public School, Bangalore 96.33%

Professional Experience
Dec 2022 - Software Engineer, Level IV, Google LLC, New York
Present o Working on Keep, a notetaking editor in Google Workspace.
Aug 2020 - Software Engineer, Level IV, Google India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Nov 2022 o Developing intelligent features for the Google Workspace Editors (Docs, Slides, Keep, etc) using my
expertise on the products’ client-side software, supporting tools and libraries, and natural language
processing infrastructure.
o Using cutting-edge frontend tools like Web Assembly and Emscripten, and Google-internal
technologies like j2Cl, client-side cross-platform frameworks and build systems, to develop user-facing
features such as spellcheck in encrypted documents for five languages and writing style suggestions
for English text.
o Formulating technical designs for independent end-to-end problems, driving cross-team collaboration,
May upholding software reliability practices, technical-debt resolution and documentation, and proactively
identifying areas of future work.
2019 -
o Guiding junior engineers on programming and software design tasks to enable timely delivery of products
July
to customers.
2019
Software Engineering Intern, Google India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
Worked on the Editors client-side software infrastructure to develop a user interface with control options to
May
undo or provide feedback on the correction and a logging framework, for the Google Docs text auto-
2018 - correction feature.
July Research Intern, Big Data Experience Labs, Adobe Research, Bangalore
2018 Developed a mobile application for Text to Scene Conversion in Augmented Reality, based on novel
research techniques for prediction of three-dimensional object sizes and positions from textual
features.

Sep Research Experience

2019 -
Paraphrase Generation with a Bilingual Model and Continuous Embeddings
May
Master’s Thesis, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
2020 Machinated a novel technique for paraphrase generation using the von Mises-Fisher (vMF) Loss on a
transformer network, and showed that it produces superior paraphrases as compared to the log-
likelihood model by employing bilingual data to induce zero-shot paraphrasing, guided by Prof. Yulia
Tsvetkov.
May Cognitive Approach to Natural Language Processing
2017 - Research Intern, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science (IISc),
July Bangalore Developed a cognitive text parser that combines syntactic and semantic approaches, to process
2017 textual data into cognitive structural representations, to be used as a feature extractor for downstream
NLP tasks, and demonstrated the correlation of the extracted cognitive features with semantic and
syntactic text features, guided by Prof. Veni Madhavan.

Publications and Patents

Improving the Diversity of Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Embedding Outputs (Paper, Poster)
[Publicati Monisha Jegadeesan, Sachin Kumar, John Wieting, Yulia Tsvetkov
on and In Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning,
Poster] The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021)
Adversarial Demotion of Gender Bias in Natural Language Generation (Paper, Poster)
Monisha Jegadeesan
[Publicati In ACM CODS-COMAD 2020 - Young Researchers’ Symposium
on and
Poster]
[Poster] ARComposer: Authoring Augmented Reality Experiences through Text (Poster)
 Sumit Kumar, Paridhi Maheshwari, Monisha Jegadeesan, Amrit Singhal, Kush Kumar Singh, Kundan Krishna
In ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium 2019 (ACM UIST 2019)
[Filed Patent] Visualizing Natural Language through 3D Scenes in Augmented Reality
Sumit Kumar, Paridhi Maheshwari, Monisha Jegadeesan, Amrit Singhal, Kush Kumar Singh, Kundan Krishna
Filed at the US PTO (Application Number: 16/247,235)
 [Publicati Leveraging Ontological Knowledge for Neural Language Models (Paper, Poster)
on and Ameet Deshpande, Monisha Jegadeesan
Poster] In ACM CODS-COMAD 2019 - Young Researchers’ Symposium

Projects
July 2019 Graph Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Formulated appropriate graph-based deep neural models for the Extreme Summarization (XSum) task
Dec
with sentence-level and/or document-level graphs, and obtained better performance than simple
2019 recurrent and hierarchical models.
Risk-Sensitivity in Multi-Armed Bandits
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
March 2019 - Surveyed and implemented risk-sensitivity methods for stochastic bandit problems, and upgraded the
April 2019 Explore-Then-Commit algorithm for VaR and cVaR measures with competent performance.
Leveraging Ontological Knowledge for Neural Language Models
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Aug Incorporated Weight Initialization in learning word embeddings using the WordNet Ontology for a task in the
2018 - Construction
Dec domain, resulting in a faster convergence rate and better representation of domain-specific terms.
2018 Multimodal Dialogue Generation
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Developed a deep neural model to establish the positive effect of domain features in the performance of
July 2018 image retrieval in multimodal dialogue systems and explored the performance of attention and
- memory-based models with adaptations for multimodal dialogue and domain knowledge integration.
Dec Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning
2018 Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Empirically analyzed the existing methods for risk-sensitive reinforcement learning, tested the
effectiveness of modified versions and proposed a new distance-based risk measure and algorithm for
Gridworld.
Oct Summarization and Keyword Extraction using TextRank
2018 - Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Analysed the TextRank algorithm for keyword extraction with syntactic filters and augmentation via
Nov
Explicit Semantic Analysis, and for text summarization with exploration of various textual similarity
2018 methods.
Scaling Graph Algorithms
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Feb Implemented optimized graph algorithms for maximum network flow and finding a maximum matching in a
2018 - bipartite graph for real data graphs with up to 10,000 vertices and 100,000 edges.
March
2018

Nov
2016 -
Dec
2016
Nov 2017 Skin Disease Diagnostic System
Microsoft code.fun.do Contest, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Designed a web application that attempts to diagnose skin diseases based on images of the user’s skin
powered by a deep neural model trained on a dataset created by scraping images from the web.
Sept201 [Statistical Learning]
7 - Oct
2017

Jan 2020
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May
2020
Breakout Teaching Experience
Game
Indian Institute Natural Language Processing - Course Teaching Assistant, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
of Technology o Designed and evaluated theoretical and practical assignments on various topics in Natural Language
Madras Processing.
Developed o Presented lectures on Edit Distance and the Cocke-Young-Kasami (CYK) algorithm, to a class of 70
an Android students.
application o Mentored sixteen pairs of students on research projects, with supervision through regular team-wise
for the progress meetings.
Breakout
game with
basic playing
Courses
and scoring Advanced Deep Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing,
features. Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Armed Bandits, Probabilistic Graphical Models, Computational
Models of Cognition
[Curriculum] Computer Networks, Database Systems, Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented
Programming
[Mathematics] Probability-Statistics-Stochastic Processes, Discrete Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Graph Theory

Skills
Languages C, C++, C#, Java, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Web Assembly
Tools Unity, ARCore, Android Studio, Stanford CoreNLP, Git, Bootstrap, jQuery, Emscripten, Blaze, j2Cl
 Libraries NLTK, django, scipy, pandas, sklearn, gensim, keras, tensorflow, pytorch

Scholastic Achievements
o First runner-up in the AWS Deep Learning Hackathon held during Shaastra 2018, IIT Madras:
Developed a prototype for image-translation of English text on signboards and posters into vernacular
languages.
o State Rank 17 in Karnataka Common Entrance Test for Engineering, 2015, out of approximately 1.2
lakh students.
o Topped respective academic institutions in both Class X and Class XII board exams.

Positions of Responsibility
June 2019 Organizer, Management Team, Tech Intern Connect, Google India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore
o Member of the central managing committee that organized a networking event hosting technology interns
from the city.
June 2016 - Technical Operations Coordinator, Shaastra 2017, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Dec 2016 o Developed the front-end components of major websites and internal portals for the annual technical fest of
IIT Madras.

Extra Curricular Activities

Cultural Trained in and have performed the Indian classical dance form of Bharatanatyam for eight years.
Sports Part of NSO (Institute Sports) Basketball during the first year of engineering (2015-2016).