Sandya Mannarswamy is an NLP researcher and is currently serving as Principal Engineer at Intel India. She was previously a senior research scientist at Conduent Labs India in the Natural Language Processing research group. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Her research interests span natural language processing, machine learning and compilers. Her research career spans over 16 years, at various R&D labs, including Hewlett Packard Ltd, IBM Research etc. Her current research is focused on natural language processing applications and AI compilers. She is the author of the column ‘CodeSport’ in ‘Open Source For You’ magazine.