Akshay Badola
Associate Research Scientist
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolAkshay Badola is an Associate Research Scientist with eight years of experience bridging interpretable deep learning, language models, and computer vision, currently researching ethical and fair AI for educational assessment at ETS. He holds a PhD in Machine Learning and Vision from the University of Hyderabad and has practical exposure to robotics research, ML engineering, and consulting on computer vision and software architecture for startups. Comfortable across systems and software stacks, he conducts research in Python/PyTorch, tinkers with Emacs Lisp for metaprogramming, and has built React frontends for pet projects and ML tooling. Akshay combines strong foundations in statistics, inference, and systems administration with a persistent interest in formalism—exploring Haskell and higher-order logic programming beyond mainstream connectionist approaches. He’s motivated by the interplay between data, symbols, and knowledge, and skeptical about overhyped claims, anticipating future shifts that reveal limits of current neural models. Based in Hyderabad, India, he blends academic rigor with hands-on engineering and an affinity for hardware.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Machine Learning and Vision, Doctor of Philosophy, Machine Learning and Vision at University of Hyderabad
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Github Skills (24)
python-development9
development-environment8
emacs-lisp7
emacs7
python7
emacs-lsp6
org-mode6
bibliography4
switch3
on-the-fly3
keyboard3
ipython2
browser2
jupyter2
highlight2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akshaybadola/ref-man
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
Emacs plugin to generate bibliography file automatically from a given plugin using various other libraries
Contributions:154 commits, 2 PRs, 131 pushes in 4 years 5 months
emacsbibliographyemacs-plugin
akshaybadola/pndconf
Jul 2018 - Oct 2023
Contributions:47 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
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