Meet our talented students
Here at UCSC’s Silicon Valley Campus, we are proud of the diverse and talented student community enrolled in our NLP MS Program. Students in our master of science degree program in Natural Language Processing are entrepreneurial, ambitious and tech-savvy. They also dedicate energy, fresh ideas, enthusiasm, and a specialist range of technical skills to each challenge they encounter. Our students are highly motivated to make a significant contribution to industry and the NLP field.
You can learn more about each of our students’ expertise, interests, and aspirations by reviewing their profiles on this page.
If you feel your organization could benefit from working with our talented students and you’d like to find out more about recruiting our students for internship or career opportunities, please contact our NLP Program Coordinator, Emelye Neff, at nlp@ucsc.edu.

Sidharth Babu
UCSC NLP MS Student

Pranjali Basmatkar
UCSC NLP MS Student
A passionate NLP master’s student with 3+ years of experience developing diverse solutions in the AI and NLP field


Vijay Chilaka
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP enthusiast with a sound understanding of Machine Learning and a drive for developing cutting-edge solutions

Sree Latha Chopparapu
UCSC NLP MS Student
Combining technical expertise and passion for AI to drive innovation and solutions | EX V2X Engineer

Bhrigu Garg
UCSC NLP MS Student

Zoe
UCSC NLP MS Student
Self-motivated, composed Software and NLP Engineer with a forte in problem-solving and a passion for creating code that makes life easier and enjoyable

Parikshith Honnegowda
UCSC NLP MS Student
Ambitious graduate student seeking summer internship opportunity to enhance my skills and solve complex problems in Machine Learning

Haolong Jia
UCSC NLP MS Student

Devavrat Joshi
UCSC NLP MS Student

Malini Kar
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Engineer specializing in solving contemporary problems in Machine Translation and Conversational AI fields | Seeking NLP/Data Science internships for summer 2023

Mridul Khanna
UCSC NLP MS Student
Previously R&D Engineer @ Ubisoft IIT Bombay Research Lab, India

Abigail Kufeldt
UCSC NLP MS Student
Interested in Machine Translation and Conversational AI | Seeking summer 2023 NLP internships

Parsa Mazaheri
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP MS student passionate about using Deep Learning in software development | 2.5 years of experience creating AI-powered software | Research experience in NLP

Zhengtong Pan
UCSC NLP MS Student
Creative, self-motivated NLP scientist and artist, using imagination to understand technical concepts and creativity to build products

Shashwat Pandey
UCSC NLP MS Student
Passionate graduate student in NLP, experienced in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and NLP frameworks. Seeking to improve human-computer interaction.

Neha Pullabhotla
UCSC NLP MS Student
Applied NLP student with a goal to be an NLP/Machine Learning Engineer to help provide meaningful insights to the development of software

Nan Qiang
UCSC NLP MS Student
An NLP enthusiast with a love for exploring nature

Shree Vignesh S
UCSC NLP MS Student
A passionate researcher working at the intersection of NLP and Finance | Ex Associate Machine Learning Engineer @ Goldman Sachs R&D | Seeking internships in NLP for summer 2023

Kushagra Seth
UCSC NLP MS Student
Graduate student in NLP with a strong foundation and extensive experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning seeking a summer internship experience

Dhananjay Sonawane
UCSC NLP MS Student
Looking for an internship/full-time opportunity in the applied or research NLP/ML/DL domain.

Priyesh Vakharia
UCSC NLP MS Student
I’m interested in dialogue, Conversational AI, and Explainable AI.

Chengxuan Xia
UCSC NLP MS Student
Actively seeking SWE/MLE internship opportunity | 2 years of industry experience

Haoran Zhang
UCSC NLP MS Student

Xin Zhang
UCSC NLP MS Student
Seeking opportunities for summer internships in 2023