Sumedh Pendurkar
Research Scientist at Meta
College Station, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolSumedh Pendurkar is a Research Scientist at Meta with nine years of experience focused on attention-based foundation models and recommendation systems. He brings a strong academic foundation from Texas A&M (PhD work) and a BTech from COEP, combined with hands-on internships that improved LLM fine-tuning memory usage and custom attention performance. His background spans teaching graduate machine learning and reinforcement learning courses, visiting research at University of Alberta, and applied ML roles at Niantic and Decompute, reflecting both theoretical depth and production-minded optimization. Based in College Station, Texas, he pairs research rigor with practical engineering wins—such as measurable speed and memory gains in attention layers—making him effective at bridging model innovation and system efficiency.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 9.12/10, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Computer Engineering, 9.12/10 at College of Engineering PuneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4 / 4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4 / 4 at Texas A&M University
Stackoverflow
43reputation
6kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (53)
ros8
simulator8
simulation7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
computer-vision7
keras6
mse6
keras-layer6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
numpy6
matlab6
artificial-intelligence6
unreal-engine-46
octave6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Pi-Star-Lab/unscalable-heuristic-approximator
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:146 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
sumedhpendurkar/image_SR
May 2017 - Nov 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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