Summary
Aditya Jaishankar is a Machine Learning Scientist at Netflix with eight years of experience building and productionizing ML systems across NLP, time-series, and deep learning domains. Trained as a soft materials physicist with a PhD from MIT, he brings uncommon strengths in computational modeling and numerical methods from materials science and fluid dynamics to data-driven product problems. His background spans end-to-end engineering—Docker, Airflow, GKE, and GCP—to deploy resilient models, and he has driven algorithmic improvements for cloud-native distributed computing and large-scale text ranking. At The New York Times he blended transformer-based NLP and semi-supervised approaches for document prioritization, and at ExxonMobil he led an interdisciplinary research team on scalable reaction–diffusion modeling. Comfortable moving between research-grade simulation code and production pipelines, he excels at translating physical-science rigor into practical ML solutions.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering (Soft Materials Physics), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Mechanical Engineering (Soft Materials Physics) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology