Kushal Arora
PhD Candidate
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKushal Arora is a PhD candidate and applied ML researcher with 12 years of engineering experience spanning low-level systems, scalable backend services, and language-model research. He has shipped production distributed systems at Amazon and helped build Chatimity’s entire tech stack as an early engineer, while more recently contributing director-style safety models and UI-representation approaches during research internships at Meta and Microsoft with papers at AACL and EMNLP. His work bridges deep learning research and production constraints—examples include distributed CRF and asynchronous gradient schemes for Alexa and practical evaluations of exposure bias for language generation. Now based in Seattle and affiliated with McGill’s Reasoning and Learning Lab, he focuses on compositional language modeling and applying deep learning to knowledge bases. Kushal combines a practitioner’s eye for scalable, high-throughput systems with a researcher’s rigor, and he often surfaces deployment-minded solutions that improve both model behavior and engineering performance.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.77, Master of Science, Computer Engineering, GPA: 3.77 at University of FloridaB. Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, B. Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute Of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
datasets9
nlp8
keras8
language-modeling8
machine-learning8
reinforcement-learning7
api7
deep-learning7
transformer-architecture7
hyperparameter-tuning7
collaboration6
ruby-on-rails6
data-versioning6
information-retrieval6
math6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aishikchakraborty/LexSub
Nov 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 years 6 months
nlplstmlanguage-modelpytorch
kushalarora/kushalarora.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jul 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 141 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 5 months
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