Tharindu Cyril W.
Research Scientist at Accenture | PhD at RIT| Ex-Summer Intern @ Amazon Ads and Meta | Researcher in LLM, NLP, ML, Ethical AI, GenAI, and Data Science
- Role
- Research Scientist at Accenture
- Location
- Mountain View, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Tharindu Cyril W.
Hi, I\'m Cyril.I am a Research Scientist at Accenture\'s Center for Advanced AI, passionate about the intersection of Generative AI, reasoning agents, and human-centric machine learning.With a Ph.D. focused on Ethical AI and Fairness, I approach AI development with a dual lens: pushing the boundaries of what agents can do while ensuring safety and alignment through rigorous guardrails. Core Focus Areas:* 🤖 Agentic AI: Developing self-reasoning agents and multi-source evolutionary algorithms (MultiGA).* Fairness & Safety: Designing automated prompt evaluation pipelines and studying human disagreement to improve model fairness.* Applied ML: Leveraging experience from Meta and Amazon to build scalable solutions for enterprise analytics.I thrive in dynamically evolving teams tackling complex problems in the social and enterprise space. When I\'m not training models, I\'m usually out cycling or behind a camera lens.
Experience
Research Scientist
Apr 2024 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US
Part of the team behind FALM, a fine-tuned Mixtral LLM for text-to-Python code generation, including synthetic dataset creation and fine-tuning pipelines for Fortune 500 analytics- Developed the Analytics Agent (text-to-SQL) within AI Refinery, an agentic platform for Accenture\'s marketing org- Co-authored MultiGA (NeurIPS \'25 workshop); collaborated with Stanford on HUMANLM for user simulation research- Led Summer 2025 intern hiring (600+ applicants); mentored 3 interns → NeurIPS workshop publications
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science
Trinity College Kandy
High School
1995 — 2010
University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
2013 — 2017
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Preliminary Stage, Computer Science
2012 — 2014
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