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 the NLP Program at nlp@ucsc.edu.
The 2024-25 NLP Student Cohort
Karthik Raja Anandan
UCSC NLP MS Student
Innovative Software Engineer and NLP Specialist with Proven Impact in AI Development and Research
Mudit Arora
UCSC NLP MS Student
MSNLP @ UCSC | DL & NLP enthusiast | Looking for Summer 2025 AI/ML/SWE Internships | Former SQA Intern @ Knight Transportation
Camellia Bazargan
UCSC NLP MS Student
UCSC NLP MS Student. BS in Software Engineering. Driven and passionate NLP Engineer interested in understanding and contributing to its many applications in the world of AI. Seeking internships for Summer 2025
Arkajyoti Chakraborty
UCSC NLP MS Student
Machine learning researcher with experience in developing data-driven solutions across industrial and academic research, as well as product development. Passionate about working in AI Safety and Alignment.
Yuchia Chang
UCSC NLP MS Student
Software Engineer with 4+ years experience in web apps and AWS and interested in domain-specific language modeling
Jack St. Clair
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Masters Student interested in Machine Translation and Conversational AI | Looking for 2025 Summer Internships
Judith Clymo
UCSC NLP MS Student
AI researcher and software engineer, interested in how to automate reasoning, planning and proof
Gavin DSouza
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP MS student with a strong interest in Information Retrieval systems and conversational AI. Seeking NLP or MLE internships for Summer 2025.
Shubham Gaur
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Grad with 5 years of experience solving machine learning problems at BlackRock, Adani Group. Passionate about applying AI to drive innovation.
Yousuf Golding
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Master’s student interested in NLP and AI in science education and educational technology.
Ishika Kulkarni
UCSC NLP MS Student
Aspiring NLP Engineer with an interest in Conversational AI and Data-Driven Applications
Kiara LaRocca
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP graduate student interested in Machine Translation and NLP in Healthcare | Background in Linguistics & Computer Science | Seeking internships for Summer 2025
Soren Larsen
UCSC NLP MS Student
Experience as a Software Developer and Consultant at Boardal, a mobile surfboard marketplace app startup. Focused on recommendation systems, SEO, chatbots, and personalization algorithms to enhance consumer platforms. Seeking summer 2025 internships.
Darian Lee
UCSC NLP MS Student
Majored in statistics, linguistics, and Russian with CS minor. Interested in NLP’s application to language learning
Hugo Lin
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP master’s student who is passionate about machine learning
Danni Ruano
UCSC NLP MS Student
UCSC NLP MS Student with a background in education and linguistics | Actively seeking summer 2024 NLP internships
Shannon Rumsey
UCSC NLP MS Student
Helping humans and machines communicate with each other
Chelsey Rush
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Master’s Student & Linguist | Interested in leveraging multilingual and multimodal NLP for education and language learning | Seeking Internships for Summer 2025
Sam Silver
UCSC NLP MS Student
Experienced Software Engineer interested in LM reasoning, tool use, and multimodality.
Xinyi Tang
UCSC NLP MS Student
Research experience in conversational agents | Seeking CV/DS/DA/NLP internships
Shriya Sravani Y
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP grad focused on merging data-driven insights with ML and DL, interested in machine translation and language modeling. Keen to gain industry experience and seeking internships for Summer 2025.
Adam Zernik
UCSC NLP MS Student
5+ years developing NLP software for summarization and extraction. Interested in info retrieval and language model bias.
The 2023-24 NLP Student Cohort
Steven Au
UCSC NLP MS Student
Exploring Mental Health and Accessibility with therapy chatbots and digital assitant teaching.
Cameron Dimacali
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP MS student with a passion for Machine Translation and Deep Learning | Seeking NLP internships for Summer 2024
Michael Fang
UCSC NLP MS Student
Background in NLP/CS and linguistics. Research experience in NLP feature engineering. Seeking 2024 internships or industry positions.
Samyak Rajesh Jain
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Grad with 5 years of work experience in solving machine learning problems. Previously at Samsung Research.
Cheng-Tse Liu (Alex)
UCSC NLP MS Student
Enthusiastic and self-driven NLP scientist | Bridging Data Science and AI with Deep Learning Expertise | Research experience in NLP
Ethan Liu
UCSC NLP MS Student
Passionate, creative, and self motivated NLP Master’s student | Actively seeking summer 2024 NLP internships
Sreekar Molakalapalli
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP master’s student who is passionate about language learning and has 3+ years of industry experience in developing data-driven solutions
Sujit Noronha
UCSC NLP MS Student
I’m passionate about bridging the gap between visual and textual AI domains. Looking for MLE, NLP or CV summer internships.
Anish Pahilajani
UCSC NLP MS Student
MS in Natural Language Processing (NLP), BS in Computer Engineering
Ojasmitha Pedirappagari
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP Enthusiast in the Making: Pioneering Language AI
Ethan Sin
UCSC NLP MS Student
Curious for anything about language | Interested in learning how to use NLP to empower peoples that use low-resource languages
Nikhil Singh
UCSC NLP MS Student
NLP master’s student who is passionate about language learning and has 3+ years of industry experience in developing data-driven solutions
Devasha Trivedi
UCSC NLP MS Student
Determined and driven NLP engineer interested in Machine Translation, Conversational AI, and Machine Learning. Seeking internships for Summer 2024
Esha Ubale
UCSC NLP MS Student
Dedicated to NLP: Pioneering Health Informatics Advancements
Khin Saw Yone
UCSC NLP MS Student
Ambitious graduate student interested in Machine Translation and Language Models. Seeking Internships for Summer 2024