I work at Google DeepMind on Gemini.
Before this, I was doing pre-training at Meta, specifically incorporating RL/thinking in pre-training, architectures, and data constraint scaling (looping/pausing) with Mike Lewis and Sharan Narang. I also spent a year working part-time at Google DeepMind on modular post training methods with Jonathan Lai, Tsendsuren, Tu Vu, and Alexandra Chronopoulou.
I finished my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill advised by Colin Raffel and Prof. Mohit Bansal.
Previously, I have worked at Microsoft Research Redmond with Subhabrata Mukherjee, Ahmed H. Awadallah, and Amazon AWS AI Labs with Qing Sun. Before my PhD, I also worked at Microsoft Research India with Dr. Prateek Jain. I also worked full-time for a year with some amazing people at LinkedIn AI Bangalore. Before all this, I completed my undergraduate degree in pure mathematics in 2018 from IISc Bangalore, where I was supervised by Prof. Partha Talukdar.