Manik Bhandari is an experienced applied scientist and software engineer with a strong background in machine learning and data science. At Amazon, Manik led a team to develop a personalized query rewriting service for Alexa, leveraging advanced tools like Hugging Face and PyTorch. Previous roles include intern positions at the Institute for Advanced Study, Samsung R&D Institute India, and IBM, where Manik focused on data analysis techniques and information extraction algorithms. As a research assistant at the Indian Institute of Science, Manik constructed an India-centric Knowledge Graph and developed innovative embedding methods. Manik also contributed to academia as a teaching and graduate research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University. Currently, Manik holds the position of Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning at Meta, focusing on the safety of large language models. Manik earned a Master's degree in Computational Data Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
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