Yash Jain
Member Of Technical Staff at Essential AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Jain is a research-driven machine learning scientist with eight years of experience building foundation models and applied AI systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Essential AI in San Francisco. He holds a Master’s from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor’s with Honors from IIT Bombay, where he earned an Excellence in Research award, and his publication record includes oral and first-authored papers at NAACL, CVPR and NeurIPS on topics like local prompt optimization, diffusion models, and mixtures-of-experts. Prior work spans industry research and product impact—from improving Alexa speech recognition accuracy by over 38% to shipping an automatic prompt-authoring system and Office Copilot features at Microsoft—often combining novel self-supervised and synthetic data approaches. Comfortable moving ideas from theory to production, he has a track record of inventing new problem formulations (e.g., Group Supervised Learning) and filing patents, and maintains an open research presence at yash-jain.com.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (70)
python10
audio10
nlp10
cascade10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
multimodal9
transformer9
transformers9
deep-learning9
machine-learning-models9
llm9
machine-learning9
inference9
speech-recognition9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jinga-lala/old-jinga-lala.github.io
Nov 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
jinga-lala/Twitter-Simulation
May 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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