Akshay Sood
Senior Scientist at GrammaTech
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Sood is a Senior Scientist and software engineer with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to software analysis and security at GrammaTech. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where his doctoral work focused on interpretability and trust for black-box models—a thread that ties together his interests in explainability, clinical ML, NLP, and security. Akshay’s background spans research and engineering roles at academia and industry, including NVIDIA and startup experience, giving him practical expertise in taking ML ideas into production. He blends deep technical rigor with applied problem-solving, often focusing on making models transparent and auditable in safety- and security-critical contexts. Based in Ithaca, NY, he brings a rare combination of formal research training and hands-on systems engineering to ML-driven software analysis.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (37)
hierarchical9
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning9
tensorflow8
data-science8
temporal7
compose7
jax7
jetpack-compose7
command-line-tool6
cli6
ssh6
neural-network6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbopper/synmod
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Temporal model synthesis
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years 5 months
deep-learningpytorchsynthesistemporal
cloudbopper/anamod
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
Feature Importance Analysis of Models
Contributions:215 commits, 7 PRs, 143 pushes in 2 years 2 months
feature-importancemachine-learningimportance
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