Manoj Acharya
Staff ML Engineer at Exponential
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolManoj Acharya is a Staff ML Engineer based in San Francisco with a PhD from Rochester Institute of Technology and a decade of experience building applied machine learning systems across vision, language, and multimodal domains. He has driven research and production work at Amazon and SRI—publishing in top-tier venues—focusing on open-world detection, multimodal V&L, graph neural nets, and continual learning while also contributing practical solutions for dataset curation and distributed GPU training. Manoj blends deep research rigor with production savvy, having deployed BERT-based and distilled models for real-world search and recommendation tasks and designed privacy-preserving in-context learning frameworks for LLMs. Notably, his background spans embedded systems and visualization tools, giving him a rare systems-to-research perspective that helps bridge prototype innovation and scalable production.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Tribhuvan University, IOE, Pulchowk CampusIntermediate of Science, Intermediate of Science at St. Xavier's College, Maitighar
Hindi, English, Nepali
Stackoverflow
567reputation
53kreached
15answers
1question
pytorch
top-5%
Github Skills (53)
pytorch10
latexml10
python10
machine-learning10
llm10
audio10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
nlp10
machine-learning-models9
transformers9
scientific-publications9
multimodal9
inference9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
manoja328/manoja328.github.io
Aug 2015 - Jan 2026
Contributions:309 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 7 months
manoja328/tallyqacode
Aug 2018 - Dec 2021
Contributions:57 commits, 13 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.