Tharun Medini

Tharun Medini is the CTO and Co-Founder of ThirdAI. Tharun was previously an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon from May 2020 to August 2020, where they worked on implementing a new Iterative Sparsification technique in the general purpose Extreme Classification package PECOS to reduce the model memory by 2x at no or minimal loss in precision. On a category with 26 MM products, they brought down model memory from 180 GB to 93 GB and increased real-time inference throughput by 33%. Tharun was also an Applied Scientist Intern at A9.com from May 2018 to August 2019, where they worked on developing efficient fallback algorithms to deal with search failure. Their graduate research assistant position at Rice University from August 2016 to August 2021 has focused on developing a novel extreme classification paradigm MACH for Amazon Search Engine. Prior to that, they worked as a Data Analyst at Target from July 2015 to July 2016.

Tharun Medini has a Doctor of Philosophy from Rice University in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay.

Some individuals on their team include Josh Engels - AI Engineer, David Torres - AI Engineer, and Nicholas Meisburger - AI Engineer. Tharun Medini reports to Anshumali Shrivastava, CEO & Founder. They are on a team with and Pallavi Srivastava - Director of Marketing & Operations.