Srikar Yellapragada
PhD Candidate
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSrikar Yellapragada is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Stony Brook University with eight years of experience bridging research and production software engineering. He has applied his expertise across industry research labs and enterprise teams, including Bloomberg, IBM, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Dolby, focusing on problems that sit at the intersection of systems and applied research. His background spans advanced academic training (IIT Hyderabad, NYU) and hands-on engineering at scale, reflecting a pattern of moving research ideas into production-ready solutions. Notably, he has repeatedly earned research internships at national labs and leading tech companies, signaling both deep technical rigor and practical impact. Based in the Town of Brookhaven, NY, he blends academic inquiry with industry-driven timelines, making him effective at prototyping and shipping complex systems. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs rigorous theoretical thinking with pragmatic engineering instincts, often uncovering simple, high-leverage solutions to tricky problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, HyderabadMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at New York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Telugu, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (46)
generative-model10
artificial-intelligence9
diffusion-models9
generative9
region9
transfer-learning9
approximation9
actor-critic9
hessian8
deep-reinforcement-learning8
proximal-policy-optimization8
python8
machine-learning8
mujoco8
pytorch8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
srikarym/rl-nmt
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:132 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
srikarym/CCM_project
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 1 push in 7 months
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