Summary
Ankur Agarwal is a Senior Research Scientist with nine years of experience blending machine learning research and engineering to tackle real-world problems, currently at Cerence AI. He holds an M.Sc. specialization in machine learning from Mila/Université de Montréal and has applied ML across domains from NLP at Huawei's Noah's Ark Lab to causal multimodal weather forecasting and biomedical image analysis at Hydro Québec and Harvard Medical School. Known for bringing cutting-edge research into production contexts, he moves fluidly between research papers and deployable systems and is open to mentoring emerging engineers. Based in Toronto, he’s motivated by removing communication barriers and often volunteers to share practical lessons from his cross-disciplinary work in ML, computer vision, and speech.
9 years of coding experience