Scholar
Nikhil Anand
Google Scholar ID: L-QbDz8AAAAJ
Sr. Research Scientist, Kempner Institute @ Harvard
Citations & Impact
Citations
457
H-index
10
i10-index
10
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: Full list available on his Google Scholar. Teaching: Co-taught an introductory workshop on building transformers at the Kempner Institute and gave guest lectures for CS 2281R on hardware, DDP, checkpointing, compute primitives, and parallelization.
Research Experience
- Currently a research scientist at the Kempner Institute at Harvard, working on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Previously a research scientist at Amazon (formerly Alexa AI), working on production speech/language models. Also a Simons Collaboration postdoctoral fellow at McGill University, working on high-energy theoretical physics.
Education
- PhD: 2018 from Johns Hopkins University, supervised by Jared Kaplan. Undergraduate: UC Berkeley, major in Physics, worked on dark matter detection.
Background
- Research Interests: Building and scaling up foundation models, including quantization, post-training, and systems scaling. Professional Fields: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, theoretical high-energy physics.
Miscellany
- Personal Interests: Squash, long walks, biking, weightlifting, photography.
Co-authors