Aditya Anantharaman

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Applied Scientist II at Amazon

United Kingdom

Overview

Aditya Anantharaman is an Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he leads the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) for contextual ad targeting and brand safety. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, his expertise spans machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, with a focus on building foundational models for search and advertising applications.

His core interests lie at the intersection of NLP and computer vision. He has explored complex problems in these domains, including fact verification, visual question answering, paraphrase detection, and object detection. His work aims to improve how systems understand and reason about both text and images.

Unique fact: Aditya is a recipient of the prestigious J N Tata Endowment Scholarship for pursuing higher studies.

Personality Overview

ROI Driven

Objective Thinker

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It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms.  They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions. They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others.

Topics They Care About

LLMs in Advertising
His current role at Amazon focuses on using LLMs to enhance contextual ad targeting and advertiser brand safety systems.
Knowledge Distillation
Co-authored a paper, "ReAugKD, " on retrieval-augmented knowledge distillation for pre-trained language models, which was accepted at ACL 2023.
Foundational AI Models
His work at Amazon's Search Science and AI division involved building foundational models for both search and advertising applications.

Media Appearances

Aditya has no verified media appearances

Work History

7-2024
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
10-2022 - 7-2024
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
2-2021 - 10-2022
Applied Scientist at Amazon
5-2020 - 8-2020
Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon
8-2018 - 12-2018
Research Intern at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Education

2019 - 2020
Master of Computational Data Science (MCDS) from Carnegie Mellon University
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Technology from National Institute of Technology Karnataka

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Insights For Selling To Aditya

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Keep some extra margin while sharing pricing, they are likely to negotiate later
  • Be ready to answer many clarity-seeking questions and requests for information
  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.

DONT's

  • Make extra effort to not seem pushy or confrontational
  • Avoid pushing them too much to involve other stakeholders unless it is critical
  • Don’t try too hard to build a relationship with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Aditya is

  • Proven ROI, pricing and objective proof points are the factors that sway their decision.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Aditya

  • They are comfortable saying no if they are convinced that it is the correct decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Aditya move?

  • Their decision-making is neither very fast nor very slow, they are somewhere in between.
  • Can Aditya take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks if their analysis shows that it would be worth it.

You And Aditya

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