Biography
Atreya Shankar is a Senior Research Associate in Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Information Systems Research Lab. He has a strong interest in explainability in modern Machine Learning paradigms, with a recent focus in simplifying Deep Learning models into transparent counterparts.
Atreya holds a M.Sc. in Cognitive Systems (University of Potsdam, 2021) and a B.Sc. in Environmental Management (Brandenburg University of Technology, 2018). Besides NLP, Atreya enjoys open-source software development and contributes frequently to projects in the Linux ecosystem. He is still in search of hobbies away from his desk.
