Apaar Shanker

Apaar Shanker is a Machine Learning Research Engineer at Scale AI since January 2022, with prior experience as a Machine Learning Research Engineer at the same company and a PhD Candidate at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech from August 2016 to December 2021. Shanker's professional background includes a summer associate role at Bank of America Merrill Lynch focusing on algo quant strategies and multiple positions as an International Research Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where algorithms for Material Knowledge Systems were implemented. An academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a combined B.S. and M.S. from the Indian Institute of Science, along with leadership experience as Chief Coordinator of Outreach and Sponsorship at the Pravega Sci-Tech fest.