Nityananda Jayadevaprakash

Nityananda Jayadevaprakash is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in research and engineering across prominent companies. Currently a Principal Research Engineer at Apple since December 2016, Nityananda focuses on autocomplete and search suggestions, particularly in the realm of Very Large Language Models and distributed search index building. Prior to this role, Nityananda served as a Senior Search Engineer at Apple Media Products, contributing to the search capabilities of the App Store and other media platforms through data science methodologies. Nityananda's experience includes a tenure at Amazon as a Computer Vision Research Engineer, where responsibilities included enhancing product search and recommendation systems. Additional roles include working as a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems on next-generation core routers, and collaborating with Stanford Vision Lab on advanced image classification techniques. Nityananda holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Irvine and a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University.