Pravarakya Reddy Battula

Pravarakya Reddy Battula
Decodis

Pravarakya Reddy Battula is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) specialist who started his career as a Software Engineer and later pivoted to analytics and data science with focus on NLP.

Before joining Decodis, Prava worked as analytics consultant for Genpact, working on multiple projects on speech analytics and data science. Prava has extended his skills into different use cases of NLP using deep learning and neural networks, in English, Spanish, Hindi, Telugu, Bangla, Swahili and many other languages.

Besides the Philippines and the Netherlands, Prava has worked on projects all around the world with Decodis, including the four countries where DPP takes place: India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Kenya.

Prava has a Bachelor’s in Technology from Acharya Nagarjuna University, an MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad and a post-graduate qualification in machine learning and artificial intelligence from Purdue University.

Articles by Pravarakya Reddy Battula

Guest Articles

Thursday
September 28
2023

Daryl Collins / Pravarakya Reddy Battula

Using AI to Transform Impact Measurement: Overcoming Language Barriers in Global Development Research

Language and cultural barriers often create a “listening divide” between the providers and beneficiaries of global development programs. According to Daryl Collins and Pravarakya Reddy Battula at Decodis, these barriers make it difficult to develop effective anti-poverty solutions — and artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role in addressing them. They discuss how Decodis is using AI technology to facilitate survey data collection and analysis in its poverty alleviation research, and highlight the role human intelligence must still play in guiding these efforts.

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Technology

Tags
artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data, financial inclusion, global development, impact measurement, poverty alleviation, research

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