I am Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, working on foundation models, generative AI, and Apple Intelligence for iPhone. I develop privacy preserving machine learning algorithms that ship to hundreds of millions of users worldwide.
bio
Ankan Dash is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple, where he works on foundation models, generative AI, and Apple Intelligence for iPhone. He develops privacy preserving machine learning algorithms that ship to hundreds of millions of users. He previously served as Senior Research Scientist – Foundation Models at Ambient.ai, where he designed and fine-tuned vision-language models for real-time multimodal understanding. He completed his PhD in Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology, focusing on Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Generative AI. His research focuses on developing AI systems that benefit society while advancing the frontiers of computational intelligence.
experience
I was Senior Research Scientist – Foundation Models at Ambient.ai, where I designed and fine-tuned vision-language models for real-time multimodal understanding in physical security. I optimized models for efficient edge deployment.
I was AI-ML Computer Vision Intern at Samsung Research America, where I successfully developed real-time reverse pass-through feature for Samsung VR.
I was AI Computer Vision Intern at Samsung Research America, where I developed POC for reverse pass-through feature and Diffusion Models for image inpainting.
education
My PhD was focused on Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Generative AI at New Jersey Institute of Technology. My advisor was Dr. Guiling Wang.
MSc in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where I worked on Finite Element Methods and CFD models for flow field analysis.
publications
links
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