About Me

I am a Senior Staff Research Engineer at Google DeepMind, passionate about pushing the boundaries of Artifical Intelligence to create a positive impact at planet scale. My work spans across large language models, efficiency, reinforcement learning and building fair AI systems. With a strong background in both research and applied engineering, I enjoy tackling complex challenges and delivering impactful solutions. My work has been featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times as well as DoJ press releases.

Experience

April 2024 - Present

Senior Staff Research Engineer

Google DeepMind, Hyderabad

Matryoshka LLM research for Gemini and its applications.
Collaborated on a reward shaping algorithm for token compression.

June 2017 - March 2024

Senior Staff ML Engineer

Meta, Menlo Park

Co-led R&D and launch of the first RL system for fairness.
Invented a novel Feature Selection algorithm deployed across Meta.
Achieved ranking improvements with Multi-modal Transformers.

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Feb 2016 - June 2017

Research Scientist

BlippAR, Mountain View

Built an end-to-end ML system for garment search from photos.
Surpassed SOTA on Deep Fashion dataset.

Publications & Patents

Matryoshka Model Learning for Improved Elastic Student Models

KDD 2025 Oral (top 10% of papers)

C.K. Verma*, A.S. Timmaraju* et al.

Towards Fairness in Personalized Ads using Impression Variance Aware Reinforcement Learning

KDD 2023 Oral (top 10% of papers)

A.S. Timmaraju* et al.

Categorical Feature Selection for Ranking Models

US Patent Publication 18/048793 (2022)

A.S. Timmaraju and P. Tripathi

Addressing Challenges in Building Web-Scale Content Classification Systems

IEEE ICASSP 2020

A.S. Timmaraju, A. Liu, and P. Tripathi

Education

Stanford University

MS in Electrical Engineering

2015

Specialized in Deep learning for NLP and Computer Vision

IIT Hyderabad

B.Tech (Honors) in Electrical Engineering

2013

Institute Gold Medalist

Aditya Timmaraju