Shakti Kumar

Shakti Kumar is an accomplished research scientist with extensive experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning. At Meta, Shakti Kumar focuses on ad recommendation architectures and Instagram ranking models, achieving significant revenue impacts. Prior roles include research ML scientist at Vanguard, where Shakti Kumar developed novel machine learning algorithms and conducted research in sentiment analysis. Shakti Kumar has also served as a software developer at Cisco, contributing to analytics models in data center networks, and has experience in teaching assistant roles at the University of Toronto. Shakti Kumar holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from R. V. College of Engineering and a Master’s degree in Applied Computing from the University of Toronto.