Vashisht Madhavan

Vashisht Madhavan is an accomplished applied scientist currently employed at Amazon since January 2025, specializing in post-training and reinforcement learning. Prior to Amazon, Vashisht served as a research engineer at Pika and founded Humanlike, where voice AI solutions for call centers were developed. Vashisht's previous roles include staff machine learning engineer and senior machine learning engineer at Snorkel AI, research engineer at Element, and research scientist at Uber, focusing on deep reinforcement learning and neural architecture search. Vashisht's foundation in computer science was established at the University of California, Berkeley, where a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science were completed. Early career experiences include software engineering internships at Microsoft and Informatica, along with backend engineering tasks at the Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.