Achin Jain
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAchin Jain is a Senior Applied Scientist with over a decade of experience building generative and multimodal AI systems, currently contributing to Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence efforts in the Greater Seattle area. He combines deep academic training—a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc from ETH Zurich—with hands-on product and research roles across AWS Rekognition, robotics, and applied control systems. His background in model predictive control, Gaussian processes, and reinforcement learning underpins practical innovations in energy-efficient building control and autonomous systems, and he co-founded Flexergy to commercialize data-driven building controls. At Amazon he has moved from applied research into AGI-focused projects, reflecting a trajectory from domain-specific control to large-scale generative models. Beyond cloud-scale AI work, he has a track record of translating academic algorithms into production-ready services and cross-disciplinary collaborations with robotics and energy teams. Fluent in both foundational research and deployment, Achin is as comfortable publishing and teaching as he is shipping ML systems that run at scale.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Master of Science (MSc), Robotics, Systems and Control, Master of Science (MSc), Robotics, Systems and Control at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (38)
octave9
nonlinear9
matlab9
ipopt9
sparse8
optimization8
code-generation8
parameter-estimation8
self-contained8
sparse-matrix8
mathematics8
symbolic-manipulation8
modular7
nonlinear-programming7
sundials7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jainachin/bayesrace
Feb 2020 - Nov 2020
Learning based control for autonomous racing
Contributions:7 commits, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
jainachin/tf-ipopt
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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