Sashank Santhanam
Machine Learning Researcher at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSashank Santhanam is a Machine Learning Researcher and PhD candidate based in San Jose with 11 years of experience building and evaluating conversational agents, cognitive architectures, and RL-driven systems. He has driven research and production-focused projects at Apple, JPMorgan Chase, NVIDIA, and Amazon, including large-scale dataset creation (e.g., Conv-FEVER and a 50M Reddit corpus) and training retrieval-augmented dialogue models up to 8.3B parameters. His work bridges cognitive bias and human behavior analysis with practical solutions to reduce hallucination and improve long-range context and factual consistency in dialogue. Comfortable moving between academic rigor and industry impact, he combines strong publication pedigree with hands-on system engineering for retrieval, decoding, and memory-based neural models. An often-overlooked strength is his interdisciplinary focus on decision-making and social network dynamics, which informs more robust and human-aligned conversational AI.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.875, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 3.875 at University of North Carolina at CharlotteBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.77, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 3.77 at Sri Venkateswara College of EngineeringHigh School, Informatics Practices, High School, Informatics Practices at PSBB
Tamil, Sanskrit, English
Github Skills (53)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
seq2seq10
flax10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
bert10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sashank06/transformers
May 2020 - Jul 2023
🤗 Transformers: State-of-the-art Natural Language Processing for TensorFlow 2.0 and PyTorch.
Contributions:16 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 2 months
pytorchnlptransformersartbert
sashank06/ICWSM_Emoji
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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