Summary
Kartik Sreenivasan is a research scientist focused on large-scale machine learning, optimization, and the practical challenges of deploying models at scale, currently contributing to Databricks Mosaic Research while finishing a PhD at UW–Madison. He brings a decade of industry and academic experience spanning adversarial robustness, federated learning, contrastive learning, and recent work on understanding large language models. At Adobe he built mathematical models and bidding optimizers for search ad portfolios, combining statistical rigor with production-minded engineering for sparse, high-volume data. His internships at MosaicML and KRAFTON highlight hands-on work in instruction fine-tuning, tokenization, and multi-modal contrastive methods, including a published proof connecting mini-batch and full-batch contrastive optimization. A fast learner and rapid prototyper, he pairs deep theoretical insight with practical systems experience, and graduated as a gold medalist from NITK.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi