About Me

Hello! Welcome to my tiny corner on the web!! I am Harshil Jain and I am currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta in Menlo Park, California. I completed my Masters in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Recently, I worked as an Applied AI/ML Associate at JP Morgan Chase & Co, Palo Alto, California during the summer of 2023. I graduated with a Bachelor in Technology (with Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar), Gujarat, India in January 2021. I worked as a Member of Technical Staff - 2 at Nutanix, Bangalore, India from January 2021 till September 2022.

During the summer of 2020, I pursued a summer research internship at the Data and Web Science (DWS) Group, Universität Mannheim, Germany under the guidance of Prof. Goran Glavaš where I worked on injecting common sense knowledge into unsupervised multilingual pretraining models for multichoice classification. I was awarded the most prestigious and coveted DAAD WISE 2020 Scholarship to pursue this internship which is awarded to approximately 130 students from India every year out of more than 2000 applications by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

During the summer of 2020, I was also a researcher at NeuralSpace, London, United Kingdom where I worked on building end to end binarized neural networks for text classification. This work has been accepted at the SustaiNLP 2020 Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing at EMNLP 2020.

During the summer of 2019, I was a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India under the guidance of Prof. Soumitra Nandy where I worked on incremental training for image classification of unseen objects. I was selected through the Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship which is awarded to approximately 350 students every year from India.

I am very fortunate to have worked with various esteemed professors while I was at IIT Gandhinagar. I worked with Prof. Shanmuganathan Raman on a project involving blind motion deblurring which also got accepted at the Deep Internal Learning Workshop, ECCV 2020. I also worked on a research project on exploring quantum machine learning algorithms with Prof. Anirban Dasgupta. The project involved the literature review of quantum recommendation systems and the classical version of it and contrasting the two algorithms. It also involved implementation of quantum generative adversarial networks (QGAN) in TensorFlow Quantum Framework.

I have been awarded the prestigious National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) Scholarship by the Depatment of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. I am also the receipent of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protshan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship awarded by the Govt. of India.

I am broadly interested in Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

You can find the details of my research internships here, my publications here and other academic research projects here. Also, you can have a look at my scholastic achievements here and key coursework here. Feel free to contact me to share your thoughts!!

Updates

Feb 2024: Started working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, Menlo Park, California!

Jun 2023: Started working as an Applied AI/ML Associate at JP Morgan Chase & Co., Palo Alto, California!

Sept 2022: Started my Masters in Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)!

Aug 2022: Promoted to Member of Technical Staff - 2 at Nutanix, Bangalore, India!

Jan 2021: Started working full time as a Member of Technical Staff - 1 at Nutanix, Bangalore, India!

Jan 2021: Graduated with Bachelor of Technology (with Honours) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar)!

Oct 2020: Extended abstract on "Generative Fashion for Indian Clothing" got accepted in the Young Researchers' Symposium Track at the ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data (CoDS-COMAD), 2021!

Oct 2020: Paper on "End to End Binarized Neural Networks for Text Classification" got accepted at the SustaiNLP 2020 Workshop on Simple and Efficient Natural Language Processing @ EMNLP 2020!

Aug 2020: Paper on "Blind Motion Deblurring through SinGAN Architecture" got accepted at the Deep Internal Learning (DIL) Workshop, ECCV 2020 as an oral presentation!

May 2020: Started a research internship at NeuralSpace, London, United Kingdom!

Apr 2020: Started a summer research internship under the DAAD WISE Scholarship at the Data and Web Science (DWS) Group, Universität Mannheim, Germany!

May 2019: Started a summer research internship under Indian Academy of Sciences Fellowship at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore!

July 2017: Started my Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT Gandhinagar), Gujarat, India!