Summary
Sanchit Ahuja is a researcher-engineer focused on multilingual large language models, combining eight years of hands-on ML engineering with academic research in NLP. He has contributed to industry and research projects at Microsoft Research (Project VeLLM) and Skit.ai’s core ML team, and is now a Graduate Research Assistant at Northeastern University’s LiLaC lab pursuing a PhD in Computer Science. His background spans applied production work—transaction categorization, voice apps, and SISR—to research topics like reinforcement learning for machine translation, giving him fluency across the research-to-production gap. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable prototyping novel model ideas and instrumenting them for real-world systems, and he maintains an unusual blend of industry-scale pragmatism and deep multilingual modeling curiosity.
9 years of coding experience