Sashank S.

Sashank S. is a Machine Learning Researcher at Apple since April 2022, specializing in Large Language Models and Natural Language Understanding. Prior to this role, Sashank served as a Senior Applied AI/ML Researcher at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from July 2021 to April 2022, working on Large Language Models and Transformers. Sashank's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where a focus was placed on integrating knowledge into conversational agents and improving their factual consistency as a Research Assistant from January 2017 to May 2021. Additional experience includes an internship as an Applied Scientist II at Amazon, where Sashank developed a large dataset for fact detection and improved performance metrics, and a Research Intern position at NVIDIA, focusing on training large conversational agents using external knowledge. Sashank also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the same university.