Avinash Thangali
Senior AI Research Scientist at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAvinash Thangali is a Senior AI Research Scientist based in San Jose with 11 years of experience designing and deploying scalable ML systems that align technical models to business outcomes. He has driven productionized demand forecasting, product representation learning with LLMs, and fulfillment prediction at Walmart Global Tech and now applies that expertise to AI initiatives at PayPal. His background spans quantitative econometrics at Bank of America, ML for deep-space communications at JPL, and medical image retrieval research at Stanford Medicine, reflecting a rare mix of high-stakes, domain-diverse problem solving. A Cornell-trained mathematician-computer scientist, Avinash blends rigorous modeling with pragmatic engineering to move research into robust, operational pipelines. He’s particularly adept at turning complex time-series and representation learning research into scalable, revenue-impacting systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell UniversityLynbrook High School
Github Skills (6)
statistics9
python8
data-science7
data-analysis7
machine-learning7
scikit-learn6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
at553/at553.github.io
Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
at553/golden_touch
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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