Meghana Ravikumar

Meghana Ravikumar is a machine learning engineer at SigOpt. She has worked with machine learning in academia and in industry, and is happiest working on natural language processing. Prior to SigOpt, she worked in biotech, employing NLP to mine and classify biomedical literature. When she's not reading papers, developing models/tools, or trying to explain complicated topics, she enjoys doing yoga, traveling, and hunting for the perfect chai latte.
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Posts by Meghana Ravikumar

Conversational AI

Efficient BERT: Finding Your Optimal Model with Multimetric Bayesian Optimization, Part 3

This is the third post in this series about distilling BERT with multimetric Bayesian optimization. Part 1 discusses the background for the experiment and Part... 11 MIN READ
Conversational AI

Efficient BERT: Finding Your Optimal Model with Multimetric Bayesian Optimization, Part 2

This is the second post in this series about distilling BERT with multimetric Bayesian optimization. Part 1 discusses the background for the experiment and Part... 9 MIN READ
Simulation / Modeling / Design

Efficient BERT: Finding Your Optimal Model with Multimetric Bayesian Optimization, Part 1

This is the first post in a series about distilling BERT with multimetric Bayesian optimization. Part 2 discusses the set up for the Bayesian experiment, and... 8 MIN READ
Data Science

Optimizing End-to-End Memory Networks Using SigOpt and GPUs

Natural language systems have become the go-between for humans and AI-assisted digital services. Digital assistants, chatbots, and automated HR systems all rely... 18 MIN READ