Karthik Sankararaman
AI Research Scientist, Frontier Model Research at Meta
Milpitas, California, United States
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Top SchoolKarthik Sankararaman is an AI research scientist with a PhD in sequential decision making and over a decade of experience building RL, bandit, and frontier-model systems that ship at scale. At Meta Superintelligence Labs he leads post-training and RLHF research for Llama/MetaAI, driving technical direction across reward modeling, tool use, agentic behavior and a data flywheel that has powered every Llama release since 2023. His background building RL and contextual-bandit systems for ads, recommendations, and integrity grounds his frontier-model work in real product impact and measurable metrics. Karthik has published foundational papers on constrained bandits and causal robustness, and has a long history of translating algorithmic advances into production systems. Based in Milpitas, he blends deep theoretical expertise with pragmatic engineering to improve model capability, reliability, and alignment in ways that reflect how people actually use AI.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of Maryland
Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (17)
theano9
keras9
visualization8
kalman-filter7
machine-learning7
jupyter-notebook6
particle-filter6
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
ros5
self-driving-car5
avatar5
neural-network4
social-network-analysis3
information-retrieval2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
karthikbmk/Machine_Learning
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
karthikbmk/SDCND
Feb 2017 - Sep 2019
Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree (Udacity)
Contributions:156 commits, 135 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
self-driving-car
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