Ankit Peshin
ML Research Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAnkit Peshin is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience applying deep learning and NLP to real-world problems across life sciences, AR/VR trust, and consumer analytics. Currently at Meta’s Reality Labs Trust org, he builds ML initiatives that balance research rigor with production constraints, following prior senior AI research roles at Avast. His background includes developing multitask deep models for high-dimensional RNA-seq at Viome (doubling F1 for some disease classes), plankton image classification research, and practical product-facing work on messaging and audience tooling. A Columbia M.S. Data Science graduate, he blends academic research—topic modeling and word vectors—with hands-on engineering and model deployment. Notably, he moves fluidly between bioinformatics, computer vision, and NLP, pairing experimental prototypes with measurable uplift in imbalanced, high-stakes settings.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMasters Data Science, Masters Data Science at Columbia University
English, Hindi, Kashmiri, German
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ujjwal95/sustainable_peace_reddit
Mar 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:7 pushes in 2 months
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