Aravind Sankar
Research Scientist at Meta
Champaign, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAravind Sankar is a research scientist at Meta with 13 years of experience bridging academic rigor and industry impact in machine learning, graph mining, and recommender systems. A PhD graduate from UIUC’s DAIS group, he has a track record of deploying graph neural network models for social platforms and recommendation problems, with internships and publications at Snap, Visa, and SIGIR/WSDM/TheWebConf. He specializes in modeling user behavior on interaction platforms and building scalable GNN-based solutions for friend suggestions and dynamic graph representation learning. Based in Champaign, IL, Aravind combines deep research expertise with product-focused experimentation at scale, often turning conference-grade ideas into production-ready models. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent collaboration across industry and academia, translating temporal graph insights into personalized group and social recommendations.
13 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasHigh School, High School at Sri Sankara Senior Secondary schoolUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (24)
graph-embedding10
self-attention10
motif10
gnn9
representation-learning9
mutual-information9
graph9
graph-neural-network9
pytorch-geometric8
graph-convolutional-networks8
collaborative-filtering8
variational-autoencoder7
tensorflow7
spatial-data6
temporal-data6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aravindsankar28/Meta-GNN
Feb 2018 - Apr 2021
Implementation of Meta-GNN in TensorFlow
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
gnntensorflowgraphmotifgraph-convolutional-networks
aravindsankar28/FastSVDD
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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