Shubham Chandak
Senior Applied Scientist, Annapurna ML at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolShubham Chandak is a Senior Applied Scientist at AWS's Annapurna ML team with nine years of experience bridging research and production in machine learning, data compression, and bioinformatics. He earned a PhD and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford (advised by Prof. Tsachy Weissman) after a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, and has applied his academic expertise to Amazon S3 and Annapurna ML projects since 2021. His work spans practical systems engineering and deep theory—particularly information theory and genomic data compression—and includes industry internships at Philips and MIT. He has taught data compression as an adjunct lecturer at Stanford, signaling a commitment to translating research into pedagogy and practice. Based in Hyderabad, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on experience building ML-driven storage and sequencing solutions. A less obvious strength is his cross-domain fluency: from hardware crypto implementations to DNA storage, he navigates both low-level systems and abstract information-theoretic problems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Hindi, English
Github Skills (59)
multivariate-timeseries10
package-management10
fastq-files10
conda10
forge10
fastq10
codec10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
compression10
fasta10
vaapi10
bioconda10
libfdk-aac10
conda-forge9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
shubhamchandak94/nanopore_dna_storage_data
Oct 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
shubhamchandak94/libbsc
Aug 2017 - Apr 2020
High performance block-sorting data compression library
Contributions:1 release, 3 pushes, 2 tags in 2 years 8 months
compressionsortingcompression-libraryperformancefst
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