Arkil Patel - Graduate Research Assistant

Arkil Patel

Graduate Research Assistant

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Arkil Patel is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Mila/McGill focusing on natural language processing with eight years of research experience spanning internships and fellowships at Microsoft Research and a research internship at AI2. He brings practical ML research experience into production-adjacent settings, having progressed from multiple research internships to a Research Fellow role at Microsoft before joining Mila. Arkil’s work sits at the intersection of applied and theoretical NLP, and he maintains a public research portfolio at arkilpatel.github.io that showcases his projects and publications. Based in Montreal, he combines strong engineering foundations from a B.E. at BITS Pilani with current doctoral-level inquiry, enabling both experimental rigor and pragmatic problem solving. Colleagues value his track record of moving ideas through successive research stages—internship prototypes to funded research—demonstrating an uncommon continuity across industry and academia.

7 years of coding experience

BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science

CBSE - AISSCE, CBSE - AISSCE at Navrachana School, Sama

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at McGill University

Github Skills (22)

solve9

cuda8

glove8

word2vec7

pytorch7

inference7

language-modeling7

sentence-similarity7

transformer6

nlp6

gpt6

transformer-architecture6

natural-language-processing6

word-embeddings6

amd6

Programming languages (2)

HTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

arkilpatel/arkilpatel.github.io

Apr 2019 - Oct 2022

https://arkilpatel.github.io/

Contributions:52 commits, 10 PRs, 63 pushes in 3 years 7 months

arkilpatel/SVAMP

Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months

nlpmathnaaclsolvetransformer-architecture

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