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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

Karthik Raja Anandan

UCSC NLP MS Student

Innovative Software Engineer and NLP Specialist with Proven Impact in AI Development and Research

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Mudit Arora

Mudit Arora

UCSC NLP MS Student

MSNLP @ UCSC | DL & NLP enthusiast | Looking for Summer 2025 AI/ML/SWE Internships | Former SQA Intern @ Knight Transportation

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Camellia Bazargan

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

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Cal Blanco

Cal Blanco

UCSC NLP MS Student

Computer scientist with extensive experience in computational linguistics and data science. Focused on propaganda and social media manipulation detection.

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Arkajyoti Chakraborty

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.

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Yuchia Chang

Yuchia Chang

UCSC NLP MS Student

Software Engineer with 4+ years experience in web apps and AWS and interested in domain-specific language modeling

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Jack St. Clair

Jack St. Clair

UCSC NLP MS Student

NLP Masters Student interested in Machine Translation and Conversational AI | Looking for 2025 Summer Internships

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Judith Clymo

Judith Clymo

UCSC NLP MS Student

AI researcher and software engineer, interested in how to automate reasoning, planning and proof

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Gavin DSouza

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.

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Yifei Gan

Yifei Gan

UCSC NLP MS Student

Brain and Behavior Science Undergrad, CS minor.

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Shubham Gaur

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.

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Yousuf Golding

Yousuf Golding

UCSC NLP MS Student

NLP Master’s student interested in NLP and AI in science education and educational technology.

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Ishika Kulkarni

Ishika Kulkarni

UCSC NLP MS Student

Aspiring NLP Engineer with an interest in Conversational AI and Data-Driven Applications

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Kiara LaRocca

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

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Soren Larsen

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.

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Darian Lee

Darian Lee

UCSC NLP MS Student

Majored in statistics, linguistics, and Russian with CS minor. Interested in NLP’s application to language learning

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Hugo Lin

Hugo Lin

UCSC NLP MS Student

NLP master’s student who is passionate about machine learning

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Shannon Rumsey

Shannon Rumsey

UCSC NLP MS Student

Helping humans and machines communicate with each other

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Chelsey Rush

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

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Sam Silver

Sam Silver

UCSC NLP MS Student

Experienced Software Engineer interested in LM reasoning, tool use, and multimodality.

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Xinyi Tang

Xinyi Tang

UCSC NLP MS Student

Research experience in conversational agents | Seeking CV/DS/DA/NLP internships
Shriya Sravani Y

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.

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Adam Zernik

Adam Zernik

UCSC NLP MS Student

5+ years developing NLP software for summarization and extraction. Interested in info retrieval and language model bias.

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The 2023-24 NLP Student Cohort

Steven Au

Steven Au

UCSC NLP MS Student

Exploring Mental Health and Accessibility with therapy chatbots and digital assitant teaching.

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Yash Bhedaru

Yash Bhedaru

UCSC NLP MS Student

Cameron Dimacali

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

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

Samyak Rajesh Jain

UCSC NLP MS Student

NLP Grad with 5 years of work experience in solving machine learning problems. Previously at Samsung Research.

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Decker Krogh

Decker Krogh

UCSC NLP MS Student

Cheng-Tse Liu (Alex)

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

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Ethan Liu

Ethan Liu

UCSC NLP MS Student

Passionate, creative, and self motivated NLP Master’s student | Actively seeking summer 2024 NLP internships

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Sreekar Molakalapalli

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

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Sujit Noronha

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.

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Anish Pahilajani

Anish Pahilajani

UCSC NLP MS Student

MS in Natural Language Processing (NLP), BS in Computer Engineering

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Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

UCSC NLP MS Student

NLP Enthusiast in the Making: Pioneering Language AI

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Jincen Shuai

Jincen Shuai

UCSC NLP MS Student

Ethan Sin

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

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

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Devasha Trivedi

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

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Esha Ubale

Esha Ubale

UCSC NLP MS Student

Dedicated to NLP: Pioneering Health Informatics Advancements

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Neng Wan

Neng Wan

UCSC NLP MS Student

Khin Saw Yone

Khin Saw Yone

UCSC NLP MS Student

Ambitious graduate student interested in Machine Translation and Language Models. Seeking Internships for Summer 2024

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