Akshay S. Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Deep learning models I designed and implemented have a daily, direct, safety-critical impact on several hundred driverless Waymo robotaxis delivering over 10,000 rides every week. Used state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to achieve this, including transformers, transfer learning, autolabeling, model distillation, and unsupervised pretraining

Stanford, California, United States

TA for ∼ 500 students in one of Stanford’s largest and most rigorous machine learning courses. Responsibilities include leading student discussions, holding office hours, creating and grading midterms, grading final course projects

Stanford, California, United States

Research Assistant at Andrew Ng's Lab @ Stanford University. Doing exciting research in deep learning applied to healthcare, such as automated chest X-ray diagnosis and determining the severity of cancer cases from high-resolution, stained pathology slides. Five publications in peer-reviewed conferences & journals with approx. 200 citations thus far.

Stanford, California, United States

TA for ∼ 300 students in Stanford’s graduate-level course in natural language processing with deep learning. Responsibilities include maintaining course notes, writing and grading homeworks, holding office hours, grading final course projects

New Delhi Area, India

Worked on a live data analytics project for a very high-profile client (>$300 million revenue) predicting recommended prices using a mathematical model. Wrote price-predicting software in R and C++. Significantly reduced the running time of the model from several days to a few hours using various optimizations. Dealt with data too big to fit in RAM. My contributions (including files I wrote) were included in the final product shipped to the same client.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, Gpa: 4.10 / 4.00

Focus on natural language processing and computer vision with deep learning. Working on exciting deep learning research applied.

Bachelor Of Science, Mathematics, Computer Science, Gpa: 3.79

Studied real analysis, complex analysis, and probability at the graduate level. Coursework in computer architecture, programming.

Ib Diploma, Higher Levels: Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy, Higher Level Grades (Out Of 7): 7, 7, 7, 6

Activities and Societies: Second Violinist and Violist at UWCSEA Orchestra. Performed multiple times annually at National University.