Varsha Embar is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the MindMeld team at Cisco, where she builds production-level conversational interfaces. She works on improving the core Natural Language Processing platform, including features and algorithms for low-resource settings, and tackles challenging problems such as summarization and action item detection in noisy meeting transcripts. Prior to MindMeld, Varsha earned her Master’s degree in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from Carnegie Mellon University.