Arun Prakash
Researcher at AI4Bhārat
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolArun Prakash is a machine learning researcher with 9 years of experience focused on scalable and efficient deep learning systems, currently working on transformers and Indic language models at AI4Bharat. He combines academic rigor from teaching and research roles at IIT Madras with practical engineering experience from a long stint in academia and early RF systems work, giving him a rare blend of systems thinking and signal-processing roots. His work emphasizes making large-language-model techniques accessible for Indian languages, reflecting both technical depth and a commitment to regional impact. As a former teaching fellow and assistant professor, he brings strong mentorship and curriculum-building experience alongside hands-on model development. Based in Coimbatore, he is active in the AI4Bharat research community and leverages his communications engineering background to approach model efficiency and deployment pragmatically.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.6, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.6 at ANNA UNIVERSITY - IndiaMaster's degree, Communication Systems, 8.2, Master's degree, Communication Systems, 8.2 at Mepco Schlenk Engineering CollegeGovernment Higher Secondary School
English, Tamil
Github Skills (33)
transformers10
notebook10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
speech10
tensorflow10
gpu10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Arunprakash-A/Arunprakash-a.github.io
May 2023 - Aug 2024
Personal Blog
Contributions:4 PRs, 84 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
Arunprakash-A/Tamil-Handwritten-Chracter-Recognition-using-CNN
May 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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