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Summary

Full Name Mohit Yadav
Email connect2mohityadav@gmail.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ymohit/
About Ph.D. in Computer Science. Innovator in machine learning and Generative AI with expertise in deep learning, NLP, and LLMs. 12+ years of research and industry experience. 15+ publications in top conferences (including NeurIPS), 360+ citations, 3 patents, and production-ready ML models.

Education

  • 2017-2023
    MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • 2010-2014
    Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi

Experience

  • Nov 2025 – *
    Lead AI Scientist
    Optum AI
  • 2023 – 06/2025
    AI Research Scientist
    Pythia Labs Inc., A Generative AI + BioTech Startup
  • 2014-2017
    Research Engineer
    TCS Innovation Labs

Internships

  • 06/2022 – 08/2022
    Research Scientist Intern
    Etsy Inc.
  • 06/2020 – 08/2020
    Research Scientist Intern
    Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
  • 05/2018 – 08/2018
    Research Scientist Intern
    Amazon Alexa

Technical Skills

  • Programming Languages
    • Python, C/C++, Matlab and R
  • ML Frameworks
    • PyTorch, Pytorch-Lightning, Tensorflow, Keras, OpenCV, Pandas, Numpy and Scikit-learn
  • Generative AI Tools
    • Hugging Face, PEFT, vLLM, LangChain, and TensorRT
  • Miscellaneous
    • Ray, Jupyter Notebook, Colab, Git, AWS, GCP and Visual Studio

Achievements

  • 2023
    • College's Dissertation Writing Fellowship (among two students in UMass CICS)
  • 2022
    • Top Reviewer Recognition, AISTATS conference
  • 2021
    • Data Science Common Good Fellowship (among ten students in UMass CICS)
  • 2017
    • Outstanding Inventive Spirit Award for filing multiple patents, TCS Research, India
  • 2013
    • Excellent Academic Performance Award (1 of 40) on IIT Mandi Foundation Day
  • 2012
    • Best Design Project, Design Practicum course, IIT Mandi
    • Summer Research Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences
  • 2011-2014
    • Contribution and Support Award, Dakshana Foundation
    • Government Fellowship for outstanding academic performance
  • 2010
    • Secured top 1% among 425,000 in IIT-JEE
    • Secured top 0.5% among 1,000,000 in AIEEE
  • 2008
    • Scholarship, Dakshana Foundation (40 students selected from 660 schools nationwide)

Service

  • ML Conferences and Journals
    • TMLR, NeurIPS-2023, NeurIPS-2022, ICML-2024, ICML-2023, AISTATS-2025, AISTATS-2023, AISTATS-2022, ICLR-2025, ICLR-2022
  • Natural Language Processing
    • ACL 2023, ACL 2021, ACL Rolling Review 2021-2022, EMNLP 2021, NAACL 2021