Shruti Palaskar is a machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience, currently focused on alignment and reasoning for large models as a Senior Research Scientist at Apple in Cupertino. She holds both a Master’s and a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and combines deep academic rigor with hands-on research across industry labs. Her background spans influential internships at AI2, Meta, Johns Hopkins and MIT-affiliated projects, with early work on multimodal speech recognition and unsupervised multimodal adaptation. She has a track record of translating research into practical systems—from recommendation engines using deep belief networks to multimodal video summarization—demonstrating breadth across speech, vision and language. Known for bridging theory and application, she frequently contributes to collaborative research workshops and summer programs that incubate novel ML approaches. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic researcher who pursues robust alignment methods while keeping an eye on deployability in real-world products.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8/4.0, Engineer's Degree, Computer Engineering, 3.8/4.0 at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.88, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.88 at Carnegie Mellon University
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Shruti Palaskar - Machine Learning Researcher at Apple