Labeling, Project Management

Profile

• With over a decade of program and process management experience, my expertise spans vendor management, data collection, quality assurance, and innovative content creation using a 'learning by doing' methodology. My specialized skills in computational linguistics and data analytics are honed with a significant focus on AI/ML applications, developed through my tenure at leading technology firms such as Google, Amazon, and Apple. This experience has equipped me with profound expertise in enhancing machine learning products. I am recognized for my ability to cultivate exceptional customer experiences, underpinned by meticulous vendor management and leadership skills, including impactful communication, advanced judgment, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making. Experience

Founder & Director (Part-Time), ResearchSparkHub Inc. - Sep 2023- Present Established and continue to over see ResearchSparkHub Inc. as a part time entrepreneurial venture along side full time professional commitments, Built and led a global team of mentors, content creators designing an end-end curriculum that fosters advanced research skills among high school students. Developed a structured mentorship model to guide students into competitive research landscape. Drove strategic growth through partnerships and business agreements with prominent international student coaching, significantly expanding the platform’s reach and impact. quality and worked collaboratively to develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Engineering Project Manager, Client: Apple - May 2024 - May 2025 Led end-to-end execution of three simultaneous global data collection projects, driving timelines, quality, and cross-functional alignment. Oversaw data collection and QA processes across international markets, collaborated with global vendors, and ensured compliance with regional requirements. Acted as the primary point of contact for gathering project requirements, coordinating with engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver high-quality data solutions on schedule. Annotation Lead, Client: Meta - July 2022 - Dec 2023 In this role, I provided linguistic expertise across syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics to support the development of machine learning models. I annotated approximately 100,000 text and image data points, contributed to data collection, curation, localization, and annotation efforts in collaboration with fellow linguists and data operations teams. I also played a key role in creating annotation systems and guidelines, evaluating and curating datasets for client models, and using grammar-based methods and programmatic templates to generate annotated data. Additionally, I designed and conducted experiments to assess model and data quality and worked collaboratively to develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses.

Linguistic Data Analyst, Client: Google Inc., — Feb 2022 - July 2022 Lead contributor for annotation systems and guidelines for intent classification of users requests in conversational dialog; Effectively classified 5K+ requests per month in text mode which led to improved intent classification models

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Lavanya Prahallad

Data Collection Lead, Client: Amazon Inc., — Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 Managed and led end-to-end text and speech data collection processes in 12 languages by collaborating with engineers, data vendors, and QA vendors; Applied management tools such as Asana for effective planning, scheduling, and tracking.

Siri Linguist, Client: Apple Inc., — Dec 2017 - Oct 2021 Designed speech recognition and natural language understanding templates for Siri domains in several Indian languages, such as Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada; Developed text and speech data creation and collection processes using crowd-sourced techniques; E2E testing and bug triaging of pan-India Siri models in the above languages; Highlights include the release of a pan-India feature in WWDC 2021. Search Language Specialist, Client: Google Inc., — Mar 2016 - Dec 2017 E2E testing of google products and i18N localization and deep dive testing to support quality efforts; Linguistic support, Data analysis, and localization for: Google Now, Google Assistant Allo, and Android Auto; Grammar design, grammar check for queries in Hindi and Indian English. Curriculum Content Coordinator, IIIT Hyderabad, India — Nov 2004 - Dec 2014 Designed learning by doing content for several engineering courses in computer science for undergraduate and graduate students, as a part of MSIT/Center of Excellence in Learning Sciences. These courses taken by 100+ students in three engineering institutions chaired by Prof. Raj Reddy of Carnegie Mellon University. Education

IIIT Hyderabad, India — (PhD) All but Dissertation, 2014 IIIT Hyderabad, India — MS in information Technology, 2008 MS Ramaiah College of Eng., India — BE in Electrical & Electronics, 2003 Top Publications

• Learning phrase-level vocabulary in a second language using pictures/gestures and voice, ICON 2014, Goa, India.

• Building Multilingual Parallel Corpora from Scanned Pages of Digital Libraries and Gaming Techniques, in Proceedings of International Conference in Universal Digital Libraries (ICUDL), Pittsburgh 2007.

• Transliteration Editor for Arabic, Persian and Urdu, in Proceedings of International Conference in Universal Digital Libraries(ICUDL), Pittsburgh 2007.

• Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech, SSML Workshop, IIIT Hyderabad January 2007.

• Learning from Example and by Doing Approach to Train Data Entry Operators at Universal Digital Library, ICUDL Nov 2006, Alexandria, Egypt.

• A Tool for Entering Structural Metadata in Digital Libraries, ICUDL Nov 2006, Alexandria, Egypt.

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