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Shikhar Rastogi

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Machine Learning Engineer at Gensyn
📍 New York, New York, United States

Shikhar is a Machine Learning Engineer at Gensyn, specializing in Data Science and Natural Language Processing. With a Masters from NYU, his career includes roles at Apple, where he deployed hate speech detection models, and IBM, where he helped build M&A strategy using NLP.

Guided by a "People first" principle, he thrives in leadership and team environments. Shikhar is dedicated to mentoring and is highly conscious of how his work impacts his teammates, mentees, and the end-users of his applications.

Unique fact: While at Health at Scale, he implemented optimization techniques that increased GPU efficiency by an incredible 75 times.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Machine Learning Engineer
Location
New York, New York, United States
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Decentralized AI
His current role at Gensyn focuses on decentralized and distributed post-training for Large Language Models.
Efficient Model Training
At a previous role, he trained transformers in low GPU resource settings and dramatically increased GPU efficiency through optimization techniques.
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Career

Work history

7-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Gensyn
4-2025 - 7-2025
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Health at Scale
7-2024 - 4-2025
Machine Learning Engineer
Health at Scale
5-2023 - 8-2023
Senior Data Scientist Intern
IBM
7-2020 - 7-2022
Software Developer
Apple
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Education
9-2022 - 2024
Master's degree
New York University
2015 - 2020
Bachelor's degree
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
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