Nilesh Gupta
Graduate Research Assistant
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNilesh Gupta is a PhD student and graduate research assistant at UT Austin specializing in large-scale machine learning, web search, and extreme classification, with a decade of engineering and research experience. He has applied those skills across industry research stints at Google, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft, working on LLM retrieval/ranking, large-vocabulary LLMs, and end-to-end search in massive output spaces. Prior roles span algorithmic trading infrastructure at Tower Research and program verification research in Europe, reflecting a blend of systems-level engineering and theoretical depth. Advised by Prof. Inderjit Dhillon, he focuses on scalable algorithms and dual-encoder approaches that bridge academic rigor and production relevance. His background from IIT Bombay and repeated collaborations with leading researchers suggest a track record of shipping research that targets real-world search and recommendation bottlenecks. A less obvious strength is his cross-domain fluency—moving from C++ exchange recovery pipelines to cutting-edge ML research—enabling practical, high-performance solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi
Github Skills (23)
prediction6
deepspeed6
machine-learning6
machine-learning-algorithms5
attention-mechanism5
pytorch5
multilabel-classification4
ranking4
python4
transformers3
information-retrieval3
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search3
llm2
encoder2
decoder2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nilesh2797/ELIAS
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Official codebase for NeurIPS 2022 paper End-to-end Learning to Index and Search in Large Output Spaces
Contributions:33 commits, 3 pushes in 5 months
extreme-multi-label-classificationsearch-indexlarge-output-space
nilesh2797/nilesh2797.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:89 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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