Arjun Ashok
Student Researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, United States
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Top SchoolArjun Ashok is a PhD student and researcher specializing in time series forecasting, currently splitting his research between MILA/Université de Montréal and Google Cloud AI Research. He focuses on making transformer architectures faster and more accurate for forecasting (TACTiS-2), developing early foundation models for lagged data (Lag-Llama), and creating benchmarks and methods for textual-context aided forecasting (CiK, Beyond DP). With a decade of research experience across labs and industry—ServiceNow Research, IBM, IIT Hyderabad—he combines strong systems thinking with practical pipeline work to adapt LLMs for multimodal forecasting. Notably, his work spans both model innovation and production-ready data pipelines, reflecting a rare blend of theoretical depth and engineering pragmatism.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université de MontréalSSLC, SSLC at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolHigher Secondary, Computer Science, Higher Secondary, Computer Science at GD Matriculation Higher Secondary SchoolDual Degree (Bachelor's and Master's), Dual Degree (Bachelor's and Master's) at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi, German, French
Github Skills (30)
react5
segmentation5
toolbox5
object-tracking4
exploratory4
multi-object-tracking4
perception4
object-detection4
decision-making3
webshop3
data-munging3
openmmlab3
rl-environment2
exploratory-data-analysis2
machine-learning2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
innovator-arjun/professional_personal_website
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Personal Website
Contributions:8 PRs, 220 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 3 months
react
innovator-arjun/Machine-Learning-Algorithms
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:129 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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