Aravind Sankar

Aravind Sankar is a Research Scientist at Meta, specializing in graph mining and modeling within the Core Data Science team. Aravind holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where prior experience as a Ph.D. Candidate was gained. Previous professional experience includes research internships at Snap Inc., where work on Graph Neural Networks for friend suggestions led to a publication at TheWebConf'21, and at Visa, where a neural recommender system for personalized item recommendations was designed. Additionally, Aravind has interned at Adobe, contributing to the development of a multi-channel recommendation system, and at Invention Labs and Tata Consultancy Services as a Web Development Intern. Educational background includes a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and high school education at Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School.