Pratyush Muthukumar

About Pratyush Muthukumar

I am a Generative AI Data Scientist at NVIDIA with a focus on applied research projects for large-scale generative AI. Previously, I was a graduate student at Stanford University pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science with a specialization in AI supported by the NSF GRFP Fellowship. I began my undergraduate education at age 14 through the CSULA Early Entrance Program and transferred to UC Irvine where I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and minor in Statistics at the age of 18. Throughout my undergraduate education, I was constantly involved in machine learning and computer science research and coursework. I received numerous scholarships for my academic excellence and research experiences, including from Edison International, Phyllis Allen Keys Endowment Fund, and Norman L. Eyster and Noemie E. Eyster Endowment Fund. My work is focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence, and I have numerous research and internship experiences in these fields. I have presented my research at various international conferences including at the MAA/AMS Joint Mathematics Meeting 2020, the largest conference of mathematicians in the world, and ICDATA \'20, one of the largest data science conferences globally. I have researched and developed machine learning models for various institutions in multiple industries including at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, City of Los Angeles, NASA JPL through the DIRECT-STEM program, USC Viterbi ISI, and jointly with Amazon and LA County WDACS. Currently, I am working on applied research at NVIDIA involving applications of multimodal generative AI for semantic information retrieval. At UC Irvine, I was named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar, a prestigious national scholarship awarded to students with excellent academic and research skills. I am also currently working as a student researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Sciences Network (ESNet). In 2022, I was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Program (GRFP) Fellowship, which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines.

Experience

1. Generative Ai Data Scientist

   NVIDIA

   Dec 2024 — Present · Santa Clara, CA, US

   Applied Research for LLM / RLHF, Data Intelligence

Education

• Stanford University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

  2022 — 2024

• UC Irvine

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science

  2020 — 2022