Karan Saxena
Senior Research Scientist at Netflix
Los Gatos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaran Saxena is a Senior Research Scientist with 11 years of experience building state-of-the-art NLP and machine learning systems for industry leaders including Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Mistral AI, and Netflix. He has played hands-on roles developing foundation models such as Llama 3/4 and contributing to Microsoft Project Turing, combining deep research rigor from a CMU LTI MS with practical production delivery. His background spans language understanding, multimodal LLMs, knowledge-graph–enhanced NLP, and high-impact applied research with measurable results (e.g., SOTA WSD and deployed monitoring tools). Based in Los Gatos, he bridges academic training and product-focused engineering, often translating complex ML research into scalable systems. A detail that stands out: he has continually moved between top-tier research labs and product teams, reflecting both curiosity for foundational models and a knack for shipping robust, production-ready ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at St. Francis' College, Lucknow, IndiaBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityIntermediate Computer Science, Intermediate Computer Science at City Montessori SchoolMaster of Science - MS Language Technologies Institute - LTI School of Computer Science - SCS, Master of Science - MS Language Technologies Institute - LTI School of Computer Science - SCS at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
67reputation
4kreached
2answers
9questions
Github Skills (100)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
data-science10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
robotics9
alarm9
xor9
clock9
computer-vision8
cpp8
datasets8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
karansaxena/VTU_Result_Checker
Mar 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
examssmssemestervtusemester-exams
karansaxena/hello-world-1
Oct 2016 - Oct 2019
Hello world in every programming language. Thanks to everyone who contributes to this, I read all pull requests!
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years
gleampythoncpplinuxpull-requests
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