Kasturi is an Applied Scientist at AWS AI and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests lie in sentiment analysis and emotion detection, generative models, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning from structured and unstructured data, with a focus on low resource scenarios and noisy user-generated text. Her research is geared towards building ML & NLP solutions for real-world customer problems, especially those that capture user opinions, intent and attributes from online text.