Alumni Talk # 5 Vijaya Kurada
Vijaya Kurada is an alumnus of OUCE who has completed her BE in Electrical engineering in the year 1991 . Though she did her bachelor ' s degree in Electrical , she pursued her Master ' s degree in the area of her interest , Computer engineering from Rensselaer polytechnic institute , New York in the year 1996 . She also did an MBA in marketing and finance from NYU , Stern School of Business . weaved around the subject of Artificial intelligence and machine learning .
In her opinion , success is all about innovative ideas , unconditional hard-work , a little patience and a bit of luck . She strongly believes that each and every person can be successful if they dedicatedly work towards their passion .
In 1992 , immediately after graduating , she joined BHEL R & D India , worked there till 1994 and then went to the US to pursue MS in Computer Engineering . During this period , she worked at GE , R & D and later joined Nuance USA and worked there from 1996 to 2003 . In 2005 , she got an opportunity to work for GE Acxiom , USA where she rendered her services for two years and then in 2008 , she re-joined Nuance and worked there till 2013 . Currently , she is in London , teaching and consulting . She also co-authored a US patent in Natural language dialogue analysis for speech recognition based systems like Apple iPhone Siri .
The main objective of the talk was to encourage all the students who want to seek their careers in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning . But what kept the students to listen with a lot of interest was the very fact that she has her roots from the same place where all the students currently belong to .
In the talk , apart from the technical aspects about artificial intelligence , she also emphasized on the importance of “ Application ” over “ Calculation ” in Engineering . She also talked about the enormous career opportunities
Not that all , Vijaya Kurada also agreed to mentor the students with innovative ideas and provide funds for their research activities . She believes that research is key to the development of our Country .
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