Niyati works as a data scientist for the Watson Ecosystem team. A dream of being able to provide a machine with intelligence that is unique, that can augment our own distinctive intelligence and that ultimately hopes to answer Alan Turing's question of 'Can machines think?' motivates her research. She holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from The Birla Institute of Science & Technology in India, and a Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing from The University of Texas at Austin. She has worked on building deep QA systems, knowledge graphs and recommendation engines. At Watson, she is known for developing core ML and NLP algorithmic paradigms, conceptualizing cognitive solutions for partners to bring them to scale and providing data science as a service to the Ecosystem team. She is also perpetually fighting entropy, would like to think of herself as a Bayesian ninja, has an ongoing affair with Wikipedia and laughs out loud real loud.