Manish Kumar

Manish Kumar is a software engineer specializing in machine learning at Google since January 2025. Prior experience includes serving as a senior deep learning research engineer at Qualcomm AI Research from January 2021 to January 2024 and working as a graduate student researcher at UC San Diego under Professor Kamalika Chaudhuri, focusing on stochastic multi-armed bandit models in healthcare robotics and developing a Neural Relational Inference model from September 2019 to October 2021. Additionally, Manish Kumar held a position as a teaching assistant, where responsibilities included preparing and grading assignments, along with conducting office hours for various courses. Earlier experience includes a role as a research fellow in the Applied Machine Learning group at Microsoft from July 2018 to July 2019, where contributions involved building an embedding learning system for Microsoft Teams. Manish Kumar holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from UC San Diego and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi.