Kushal Lakhotia

Kushal Lakhotia is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in natural language processing and machine learning. Currently serving as a Software Engineer at Meta, Kushal focuses on projects related to Llama 3. Previously, Kushal held the position of Senior Staff Software Engineer/Manager at Google, contributing to LLM reasoning and tool-use for Google Bard/Gemini. As Director of Applied Science at Outreach, Kushal led the NLP team in developing natural language understanding for sales calls and meetings. Prior roles include Research Engineer at Facebook AI Research and various positions at Microsoft, where Kushal worked on neural ranking models and search relevance. Kushal's academic credentials include a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur.