Overall Company information
- Type: Research Lab
- Client(s): IBM Product lines using NLP on the backend - OneNLPStack, Watson OneNLP, Watson Health
- URL: https://research.ibm.com/labs/almaden/
- Description: IBM Research is the business unit that powers long term sustainability across various businesses and markets, through researching and developing the strong fundamentals for the products, alongside publishing and patenting the IP (Intellectual Property)
My learnings and contribution
- My time with IBM Research started parallel to my grad school at UCSB, in the form of a research internship, which later converted to a full time offer.
- From then I've learnt to organize and ground my research better, keeping in mind the end product and it's utility.
- I got to work with some of the pioneers in data and AI space, which this lab is well known for.
- This brought into perspective the importance of structured research in establishing and maintaining technical prowess in the market, which has gotten us this far as a tech community.
- This place also highly encouraged publishing and patenting, which helped me develop a mindset to look at everyday problems through the lens of an inventor and find the most sustainable solutions
- Along with it, I learnt the importance of "slowing down to speed up" as coached by one of my managers - the importance of taking a step back to think and plan before executing.
- I worked on Watson OneNLP and Watson Health product lines and other POCs in the capacity mentioned above, during my time here.
Projects
The formal projects I worked on during my time here:
Recommendations
Recommendations from people I worked with here:
Sanjana and I worked in the same group and collaborated on a project involving crowdsourcing and Semantic Role Labeling. Her knowledge of NLP and top software engineering skills became apparent during this collaboration. She is eager to share her knowledge. I mentored Sanjana on patenting at IBM and its process. She was a quick learner and went on to officially become an inventor by filing her first patent. She is curious, engaged and creative so I expect her to remain active as an inventor. In addition, Sanjana invests time and effort participating and leading activities that promote community building, team spirit and technical exchanges. I highly recommend her.
Sanjana is a young, energetic researcher and engineer. I got to know her while we're in (two) same group in IBM Research. She is curious and likes to learn. I enjoyed many technical discussion we had for various problems. She is smart and very motivated. Also, she is a great communicator. I am impressed by her ability to connect people in various departments and make things happen through collaborations. No doubt that she will make positive impacts on her new role in IBM. All the best, Sanjana.
I met Sanjana as part of the Developer JumpStart program at IBM. I was very impressed by her leadership skills, curiosity, and interest to learn new things early in her career at IBM. She is a knowledgeable data scientist and a great speaker. It's a joy to be around Sanjana, and I highly recommend her.
Sanjana and I worked together as a two-person team on a research project concerning the merging of data from medical ontologies, and deriving a new kind of word embedding for terms in the ontologies. We worked together on conceptual aspects, on programming, on devising and performing performance tests, and on writing a conference submission describing our work. Throughout I was impressed by Sanjana's initiative, skills, creativity, and teamwork. Her work on combining ontologies using ontology keyword queries as a first step, facility with Python and Github, and writing the majority of the submission manuscript were particularly important. I was also impressed by Sanjana's presentations and contributions to discussions, for a journal club we were both in, studying neural nets for NLP. Sanjana also took initiative in organizing events and activities that helped our larger organization at IBM, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. This played an important role in keeping our group coherent and sane. It was a pleasure to work with Sanjana, I strongly recommend her.
Sanjana worked on my team as a Software Engineering Researcher at IBM Almaden. I have found Sanjana to have a very strong work ethic which is something I value above everything else. Sanjana is smart, sharp, quick learner and very professional. She works well with people, eager to take on hard problems, follows-through on issues and resolves them. She can multi-task very well and I have seen her juggle many projects and problems while on my team. She is a pleasure to work with. She is moving to another role as a Data Scientist in IBM India. I wish her the very best in all her future endeavors and hope our paths cross again. She will do well in any team she joins and they are lucky to have her. Best Wishes Sanjana!!!
I was Sanjana’s mentor when she worked at IBM Almaden Research Center. We have regular lunch mentoring sessions which we usually discuss career planning, tips to help her grow internal and external eminence, etc. She always prepared for each session with well-thought and articulated questions. I really enjoyed the opportunity to interact with such a young, energetic and dedicated research software engineer. I was always inspired by her capability to connect with members across teams and organizations, her enthusiasm to share her expertise in NLP and help others in many ways. I hope she will enjoy her next step of career in India. I highly recommend her!
Sanjana and I were part of the same team which was focussed on delivering novel health informatics solutions to the Watson Health Imaging business unit at IBM. We worked very closely to come up with a solution to adapt an existing product to work on EMR in French. Right from the get-go, I realized that Sanjana was a fast learner. She asked the right questions and if something wasn't clear she made sure she had the information that she needed. Her documentation skills, which is something I value very much in a researcher, is second to none. She was on top of her deadlines as well. She is an excellent team player as well and was always there if I needed help or needed to clarify something with her. She will be a valuable asset no matter where she goes. It was real pleasure to work with her.
Sanjana and I worked in the same group and collaborated on a project involving crowdsourcing and Semantic Role Labeling. Her knowledge of NLP and top software engineering skills became apparent during this collaboration. She is eager to share her knowledge. I mentored Sanjana on patenting at IBM and its process. She was a quick learner and went on to officially become an inventor by filing her first patent. She is curious, engaged and creative so I expect her to remain active as an inventor. In addition, Sanjana invests time and effort participating and leading activities that promote community building, team spirit and technical exchanges. I highly recommend her.
Sanjana is a young, energetic researcher and engineer. I got to know her while we're in (two) same group in IBM Research. She is curious and likes to learn. I enjoyed many technical discussion we had for various problems. She is smart and very motivated. Also, she is a great communicator. I am impressed by her ability to connect people in various departments and make things happen through collaborations. No doubt that she will make positive impacts on her new role in IBM. All the best, Sanjana.
I met Sanjana as part of the Developer JumpStart program at IBM. I was very impressed by her leadership skills, curiosity, and interest to learn new things early in her career at IBM. She is a knowledgeable data scientist and a great speaker. It's a joy to be around Sanjana, and I highly recommend her.
Sanjana and I worked together as a two-person team on a research project concerning the merging of data from medical ontologies, and deriving a new kind of word embedding for terms in the ontologies. We worked together on conceptual aspects, on programming, on devising and performing performance tests, and on writing a conference submission describing our work. Throughout I was impressed by Sanjana's initiative, skills, creativity, and teamwork. Her work on combining ontologies using ontology keyword queries as a first step, facility with Python and Github, and writing the majority of the submission manuscript were particularly important. I was also impressed by Sanjana's presentations and contributions to discussions, for a journal club we were both in, studying neural nets for NLP. Sanjana also took initiative in organizing events and activities that helped our larger organization at IBM, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. This played an important role in keeping our group coherent and sane. It was a pleasure to work with Sanjana, I strongly recommend her.
Sanjana worked on my team as a Software Engineering Researcher at IBM Almaden. I have found Sanjana to have a very strong work ethic which is something I value above everything else. Sanjana is smart, sharp, quick learner and very professional. She works well with people, eager to take on hard problems, follows-through on issues and resolves them. She can multi-task very well and I have seen her juggle many projects and problems while on my team. She is a pleasure to work with. She is moving to another role as a Data Scientist in IBM India. I wish her the very best in all her future endeavors and hope our paths cross again. She will do well in any team she joins and they are lucky to have her. Best Wishes Sanjana!!!
I was Sanjana’s mentor when she worked at IBM Almaden Research Center. We have regular lunch mentoring sessions which we usually discuss career planning, tips to help her grow internal and external eminence, etc. She always prepared for each session with well-thought and articulated questions. I really enjoyed the opportunity to interact with such a young, energetic and dedicated research software engineer. I was always inspired by her capability to connect with members across teams and organizations, her enthusiasm to share her expertise in NLP and help others in many ways. I hope she will enjoy her next step of career in India. I highly recommend her!