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).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: