Presenter

Piyush Ghai is currently working at Amazon AI in Palo Alto, CA. His work focuses on optimizing large scale distributed training of deep learning models. His broader research interests lie in the field of Natural Language Processing and Conversational AI with a focus on interpretability and fairness in text generation. Prior to joining Amazon, Piyush graduated with a Master's Degree in Computer Science focusing in NLP from The Ohio State University in Spring 2018. Prior to coming to the United States, Piyush worked at Hike Messenger, which is a messaging startup in India, where he worked as a Software Engineer and contributed directly to over 10x growth in messaging volume and adoption from 2014-2016. Before that, Piyush graduated with a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Delhi University, New Delhi in Spring 2014.