Sanket Shah

Sanket Shah is an AI Research Scientist at Duolingo since July 2025, with a robust background in computer science and research. Previously, Sanket served as a Graduate Research Assistant at Harvard University from September 2020 to May 2025, and completed internships as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon and a Research Intern at Google DeepMind, where a first-author paper on scaling machine learning-based mobile health interventions was published. Sanket's earlier roles include impactful research as a Research Engineer at Singapore Management University, producing two first-author papers on Reinforcement Learning for societal challenges, and research internships at organizations such as Microsoft Research India and Philips Innovation Campus, which involved innovative projects in areas like peer-to-peer file transfer and wearable technology. Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.