Summary
Gaurav Sarkar is a research-focused machine learning engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in speeding up diffusion LLMs and productionizing ML on accelerator hardware. Currently a Research Fellow at AMD, he previously drove ML optimization and accelerator integrations at Intel—publishing papers on training-free optimization for fast diffusion LLMs and a novel activation (SG-Blend)—and built frameworks that boosted HuggingFace model performance by up to 80%. He combines deep research chops from IIIT-H and industry delivery across Gaudi, Habana, and enterprise NLP pipelines, plus hands-on experience in speech-to-speech translation and no-code training platforms. Based in Hyderabad, he’s been “turning coffee into code since 2016,” and uniquely bridges research publications with practical tool-building that accelerates real-world model deployment.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS by Research, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS by Research, Computer Science at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, BANGALORE
High School, Science Stream, High School, Science Stream at Delhi Public School (DPS)
English, Hindi, Bengali