Akilesh Badrinaaraayanan

Akilesh Badrinaaraayanan is currently working at Google as an ML and Privacy specialist, focusing on large language models, software development, and compliance with privacy regulations. Previous experience includes serving as a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, where advanced econometric techniques were utilized to analyze interventions by a Fortune 500 company, and as a research collaborator at PNC, conducting data and econometrics analysis to aid low-income households. Akilesh also completed a Master of Science at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute in machine learning, contributed to machine learning projects at Adobe, and interned at Bosch Engineering, Aerospike, and the Indian Institute of Technology. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering with Honors in Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad and dual Master's degrees in Business Technologies and Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University and Université de Montréal, respectively.