Aditya Anantharaman is an Applied Scientist II at Amazon with 10 years of experience building LLMs and foundational models for Search and Ads, currently leading efforts to integrate large language models into contextual ad targeting and advertiser brand safety. His work spans NLP, computer vision and ML, with published research on zero-shot object detection and practical industry impact from product search to visual question answering and medical imaging. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MCDS) and NIT Karnataka, he combines strong academic rigor—top grades and conference acceptances—with hands-on production engineering at scale. Notably, he has repeatedly moved research into production at Amazon, improving entity linking and context understanding in search and ad systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS), 4.11/4.33, Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS), 4.11/4.33 at Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, 9.54/10 (Class Rank: 6/101), Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, 9.54/10 (Class Rank: 6/101) at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
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Aditya Anantharaman - Applied Scientist II at Amazon