Adit Krishnan
Senior ML Scientist at Netflix
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdit Krishnan is a Senior ML Scientist based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building production-grade NLP, search, recommendation, and multimodal content analysis systems. He holds a PhD from UIUC and has transitioned academic research on robust deep-learning and information retrieval into industry impact at Microsoft, AWS, and now Netflix, contributing to Microsoft365 Designer and authoring multiple granted patents. His recent work focuses on LLM applications, agentic systems, and alignment—culminating in publications like EMNLP 2024 on entity resolution and ICLR 2026 on self-aligned RL for reasoning models. Comfortable spanning research and product engineering, he uniquely combines graph- and retrieval-centered expertise with hands-on LLM fine-tuning and post-training alignment.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (7)
sampling2
modular2
computation2
nlp2
deep-learning2
inference1
natural-language-processing1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
CrowdDynamicsLab/Adversarial-Social-Recommendation
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
[Under Construction] Contains code for the CIKM 2019 publication titled "A Modular Adversarial Approach to Social Recommendation"
Contributions:14 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 months
deep-learningadversarialapproachrecommendationsocial-recommendation
CrowdDynamicsLab/NCF-GAN
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
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