Yashal Kanungo
Principal Scientist at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYashal Kanungo is a Principal Scientist based in Seattle with 11 years in AI/ML, currently leading generative AI research and production for Amazon Ads where he builds multimodal agents, video/image generation, and large-scale orchestration systems. He combines deep research expertise in diffusion models and LLMs with rare end-to-end production experience—training models at petabyte and GPU scale and operating global deployments that generate content with billion-scale impressions. He led the Creative Agent multi-agent architecture featured at AWS re:Invent 2025 and holds multiple patents and publications in generative video and image tech. Prior work spans ranking, classification, and retrieval systems at 100M+ scale, and earlier projects include improving medical imaging recall in low-resource settings, reflecting a practical focus on impactful, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science - Specialization in Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science - Specialization in Machine Learning at Georgia Institute of TechnologyISC and ICSE, : Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Math, ISC and ICSE, : Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Math at Ryan International School
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Github Skills (80)
python10
deep-learning10
face10
multi-gpu10
neural-network10
deploying10
data-science10
tensorflow10
amazon10
machine-learning10
ml9
acl9
audio9
phonetics9
computational-linguistics9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
YashalShakti/ComputerGraphicsUsingOpenGL-10CSL67
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:35 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
tarun1321/Book-database
Jul 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
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