Akash Srivastava
Director And Chief Architect, Core AI at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAkash Srivastava is a director-level AI leader and chief architect who builds and productizes core generative AI technologies for enterprise at IBM, after founding and rapidly scaling Red Hat’s AI Innovation Team. He combines deep academic credentials (PhD in AI from the University of Edinburgh and PI at the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab) with hands-on delivery of tools like InstructLab and LAB that bridge research and production for LLM customization, alignment, and inference-time scaling. His work spans synthetic data, differential privacy, reinforcement learning for LLMs, and logistics optimization, with research funded by MIT‑IBM, DARPA, and Climate Change AI. Known for turning prototypes into shipped products on aggressive timelines (InstructLab reached production in nine months), he also advises cross-organizational AI strategy and collaborates with top academic groups. Based in Cambridge, MA, he blends technical depth in generative models with pragmatic architecture and a track record of influencing both open research and commercial AI stacks.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, First Class Honours, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, First Class Honours at The University of Sheffield
English, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
python9
machine-learning9
implicit9
deep-learning9
generative-adversarial-network8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
collapse7
topic-modeling5
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
latent-semantic-analysis5
pytorch5
latent-dirichlet-allocation4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
akashgit/VEEGAN
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:89 commits, 1 PR, 88 pushes in 10 months
pytorchcollapseimplicitdeep-learninggenerative-adversarial-network
akashgit/akashgit.github.io
Dec 2015 - Dec 2023
Contributions:401 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 1 month
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