Abhinav Rastogi
Research Scientist at Mistral AI
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhinav Rastogi is a Research Scientist with 11 years of experience specializing in NLP, deep learning, and conversational AI, currently driving R&D at Mistral AI after leading LLM teams at Google DeepMind. He is a recognized leader in task-oriented dialogue research, creator of the widely used schema-guided dialogue dataset, and organizer of multiple DSTC challenges and ACL workshops. His work spans both foundational research—with publications and patents—and product-facing engineering, reflecting roles from individual contributor to tech lead manager. Trained at IIT Bombay and Stanford, he combines top-tier academic rigor with production experience at scale across Google and research labs. Beyond papers, he has a track record of turning research into practical systems and datasets that others build on. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances creative NLP solutions with an engineer’s focus on deployable, impactful outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, 9.9/10.0, Bachelor's Degree, Electrical Engineering, 9.9/10.0 at IIT BombayIndian Institute of Technology BombaySainik School NalandaMaster's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
machine-learning10
dialogue-systems10
google10
ai10
nlp-machine-learning10
parser8
nlp6
interpreter5
librarian4
neural-network4
publish2
deep-learning1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google-research-datasets/simulated-dialogue
Dec 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
google-research/task-oriented-dialogue
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
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