Prashant Shiralkar

Prashant Shiralkar is a dedicated professional currently serving as a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, with a focus on building the Amazon Product Graph, a comprehensive knowledge base sourced from the web and integrated with the Amazon catalog.

With a strong educational background, Prashant pursued his PhD in Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington, followed by a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Iowa, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science & Engineering from Nirma University in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

His research interests span a wide array of fields, including Machine Learning, Data Mining, Network Science, Semantic Web, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge extraction, and Data integration.

Throughout his career, Prashant has held various roles, including Applied Scientist and Machine Learning intern at Amazon, Research Intern at Philips Research North America, Summer Intern at Data Sciences Summer Institute, Programmer Analyst at Transamerica Capital Management - AEGON, Application Developer at Information Technology Services, Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Iowa, and Software Engineering Intern at Login Softech Pvt. Ltd.