Thamme Gowda

Email: tgowdan [at] gmail [dot].com
Curriculum Vitae

Thamme Gowda is a Research Scientist at Microsoft Translator. He obtained his Ph.D. (2022) and MS (2017) from USC, both majoring in Computer Science. Previously, he worked as a Research Engineer at USC ISI (2017-22; for five years!), a Data Scientist intern at NASA JPL (2016-17), a Committer and Project Management Committee member at the Apache Software Foundation, a full-stack software developer at a startup (2012-14), and co-founder at Datoin.com (2014-15).

His recent focus is on neural machine translation and rare phenomena learning problem (dissertation, slides).

Education

PhD in CS

2018-2022

MS in CS

2015-2017

BE in CS&E

2008-2012

Professional Career

Research Scientist

2022/11 - Now

Research Engineer

2017/07 - 2022/10

Data Scientist (intern)

2016 - 2017

Research Assistant

2015 - 2016

Technical Co-Founder

2014 - [2015]

Software Engineer

2012 - 2014

More ?

I speak Kannada/ಕನ್ನಡ, Telugu/తెలుగు, and Hindi/हिन्दी (+English, of course!). I was raised by a family of farmers in a southern Indian village. So, beside the "professional" experience that I have displayed here, I also have much more experience in agriculture that you will not hear: vineyard, silkworms, dairy, sheep, poultry...!

I came to this grad school for learning the artificial intelligence, but I also ended up learning a bit about myself/consciousness:

While coding an artificial soul for machines
He wins his gifts, defeats his curses
And discovers his own soul that thinks and feels!

Consciousness is divine [Prajnanam Brahman]
This self/Atma is divine [Ayam Atma Brahman]
You are that [Tat Vam Asi]
I am (part-of) it [Aham Brahmasmi]