Akanksha Atrey
Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAkanksha Atrey is a research scientist with a PhD in computer science from UMass Amherst and eight years of experience building trustworthy ML and systems for edge computing and decentralized infrastructure. Currently at Nokia Bell Labs, she designs AI/ML systems and web3 technologies with a focus on privacy, security, and trustworthiness, drawing on prior internships at Adobe and IBM where she advanced transformer-based recommenders and large-scale survival analysis. Her doctoral work blended edge ML, explainability, and causality for robust deep RL and privacy-preserving models, reflecting a strong bridge between theoretical research and practical systems. Comfortable in both research and production settings, she has experience shipping low-level mainframe components as well as end-to-end on-device decisioning systems, highlighting an unusual breadth from hardware-adjacent software to cutting-edge AI. Based in the NYC area, she brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to emerging decentralized and edge computing challenges.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University at AlbanyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Stackoverflow
810reputation
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29answers
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Github Skills (68)
q-learning9
gymnasium9
gtk9
api8
qt8
python8
docker-engine8
matplotlib8
reinforcement-learning8
deep-learning7
docker-swarm7
data-visualization7
package7
docker7
pytorch7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
akanksha-atrey/akanksha-atrey.github.io
Dec 2017 - Nov 2023
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
KDL-umass/saliency_maps
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:101 commits, 1 comment in 10 months
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