Luke Nitish Kumar

Senior Applied Research Scientist @Servicenow Ai Research

Toronto, CA
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WORK HISTORY

Oct 2022 — Present

Senior Applied Research Scientist @Servicenow Ai Research

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Toronto, ON, CA

At ServiceNow Research, I research adaptable guardrails to defend against evolving attacks in enterprise AI systems — building context-driven guardrail pipelines and evaluation benchmarks that simulate realistic, evolving attack scenarios to expose blind spots in defenses. I also contribute to the Apriel family of LLMs, helping build a cohesive model family through pre-training, mid-training, SFT, and distillation, including training efficient hybrid architectures like Apriel-H1. Our goal is to deliver agents that are secure by default, high-impact, and built to meet enterprise requirements at every scale.

EDUCATION

2014 — 2016

University of Alberta

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

2008 — 2012

University of Colombo

Bachelor of Science with Honours, Computer Science

SKILLS

Survival AnalysisMysqlSchemeBashResearchJavaLdaCompilersSqlPrestoPattern RecognitionSoftware EngineeringPythonLatexCluster AnalysisBioinformaticsProbabilistic ModelsMatlabData MiningCData AnalysisMachine LearningC++RPhpMissing DataReinforcement LearningStatistical Data AnalysisRegression AnalysisGithub

ABOUT LUKE NITISH KUMAR

Applied Research Scientist at ServiceNow Research, researching adaptable guardrails and context-driven defense pipelines to secure enterprise AI agents against evolving attacks. I also contribute to the Apriel family of foundation models — including Apriel-H1, a hybrid Transformer–Mamba architecture — with work spanning the full model lifecycle: pre-training, mid-training, SFT, distillation, and evaluation.Previously at Microsoft and Amii, I built transformer-based B2C products and led applied ML initiatives in Health, Finance, and Energy, helping organizations adopt and deploy machine learning effectively.I bridge research and real-world impact — turning emerging model innovations into secure, high-impact AI systems.

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