Ishaan Kumar
Research Engineer at Descript
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolIshaan Kumar is a research engineer with 11 years of experience applying deep learning and ML to real-world products, currently advancing audio and AI research at Descript after training at Mila and IIT Kanpur. His background spans industry research and production engineering—from SIGIR-published work on GNN-based recommendation systems at Huawei to building ML frameworks and RESTCONF microservices at Juniper and practical medical imaging models at AFX Medical. He combines a research-first mindset with production instincts, repeatedly taking prototypes into deployable services and pipelines. Based in Toronto, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems design and has a track record of shipping extensible libraries and services that bridge research and product needs.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurMaster's degree, Computer Science, 4.2, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.2 at Université de Montréal
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (39)
compression-algorithm10
generative-adversarial-network10
codec10
artwork9
pytorch9
python9
audit9
yaml9
audio9
genius-api9
compression9
deep-learning8
flask-extensions8
swagger8
memory-efficient8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eeishaan/jsnapy
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:73 pushes, 28 branches in 6 months
pythonjunosjunos-snapshot-administratoradministratorpython-version
eeishaan/pytorch-template
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Skeletal code for pytorch experiments
Contributions:28 commits, 4 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 days
pytorch
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