Summary
Sourabh Kulkarni is a research scientist at Meta with eight years of experience at the intersection of AI transparency, agentic systems, and hardware/software research. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from UMass Amherst and has deep roots in both academia and industry, including multiple PhD internships at Facebook and long-term research and teaching roles at UMass. His work blends probabilistic programming, hardware-aware AI, and system-level thinking—bringing a rare hardware-software perspective to questions of AI interpretability and agent behavior. Based in Amherst, MA, he combines top-tier academic credentials and teaching experience with practical research deployed at scale inside a major platform. An understated strength is his ability to translate nanofabrication and hardware organization insights into software research directions that inform trustworthy, efficient AI systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.98/4 GPA, Best Outgoing Student ECE 2015 Batch, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.98/4 GPA, Best Outgoing Student ECE 2015 Batch at Rajarambapu Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 4.0 at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit