Kapil Thadani
Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKapil Thadani is a Senior Research Scientist in New York with 11 years of experience building machine learning systems for understanding, organizing, and generating natural language. At Yahoo he has led work on personalized ranking, unbiased deep RL ranking, multilingual entity linking, and automated video-story generation from news, turning research prototypes into production-facing features. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia, where he also taught graduate courses on deep learning and contributed to long-running government- and industry-funded language understanding projects. His expertise spans structured prediction, summarization, and importance-weighted active learning, and he combines classical NLP and deep architectures to solve real-world content and personalization challenges. An often overlooked strength is his track record of integrating research into large-scale media products, bridging academic rigor with practical deployment.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
Github Skills (16)
tezos9
slick9
akka7
decentralized-applications7
api7
blockchain6
ethereum5
indexer5
javascript5
typescript4
solidity4
financial4
financial-instruments4
react2
wallet1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vishakh/blockinstruments
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
financialethereumblockchainsolidityfinancial-instruments
outerproduct/nyt-summ
Jul 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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