Shounak Datta
Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer at Arm
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShounak Datta is a Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer with a decade of experience focused on making deep learning—especially LLMs and Vision Transformers—practical for deployment on memory- and compute-constrained devices. He combines academic rigor (PhD from the Indian Statistical Institute and an ICML 2023 first-author paper on few-shot learning that preserves data manifolds) with industry impact, having built low-latency, resource-efficient models at Arm and production-scale NLP agents at Amazon. His work spans model design, training, and optimization for edge scenarios, producing Pareto-efficient trade-offs between accuracy and latency. Earlier research includes medical imaging for glaucoma, causal inference methods, and robust ML techniques for noisy and imbalanced data, reflecting a breadth from theory to applied systems. Based in Austin, he brings both deep research credentials and hands-on engineering experience to bridge cutting-edge algorithms and real-world constrained deployments.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at Indian Statistical InstituteMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Jadavpur UniversityBTech - Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Techno India
Bengali, English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
nlp5
deep-learning4
inference4
transformers4
pytorch4
transformer4
quantization3
large-language-models2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Shounak-D/Shounak-D.github.io
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:185 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
Shounak-D/LexiBoost
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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