Aryaman Shandilya

AI Researcher

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2 yrs 1 mo experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expertise in Machine Learning and Generative AI.
Proven track record in optimizing product delivery costs.
Strong academic background from top institutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on AI-driven solutions in the tech industry.

Contact

aryaman.shandilya@tiktok.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningGenerative AiData ScienceProduct Management

Other Skills

Computer VisionData AnalysisFeature EngineeringLeadershipModel DeploymentNatural Language ProcessingProduct DesignPythonWeb DevelopmentYOLOv8

About

Currently pursuing a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, while working as a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at TikTok. Contributed to Generative AI advancements through academic roles as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, teaching courses like Generative AI. Previous research at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, focused on highway traffic analysis using YOLOv8. Combines technical expertise in machine learning, data science, and Generative AI with a strong academic foundation from IIT Kanpur.

Experience

Tiktok

Machine Learning Engineer

May 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

Automated the training and deployment process of the search advertisements recall model for TikTok
Increased search ads value by 0.8% for ~1.7B users through feature engineering and architecture changes in the model

Machine LearningGenerative AIPython

Indraprastha institute of information technology, delhi

Research Assistant

Nov 2023 – Mar 2024 · 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

Advanced analysis of highway traffic using multi-camera multi-object tracking with YOLOv8

YOLOv8Data AnalysisData Science

Needl.ai

Machine Learning Engineer

Aug 2023 – Nov 2023 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built a pipeline for extractive document summarisation using computer vision for table extraction and a large language model for summarisation and sentiment analysis.

Machine LearningComputer VisionNatural Language Processing

Career break

Career transition

Mar 2023 – Jul 2023 · 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Studied to pivot into Artificial Intelligence and prepared my master’s application taking the GRE (332/340 - Q170, V162) and TOEFL (117/120 - R30 L30 S29 W28) in the process.

Zomato

2 roles

Associate Product Manager

Jun 2022 – Feb 2023 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Generated savings by decreasing platform-level delivery cost-per-order through efficient rider-order assignment.

Product ManagementData Analysis

Associate Product Manager

Mar 2022 – Jun 2022 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Improved last-mile navigation for Delivery Partners leading to savings due to reduction in overall delivery time

Product ManagementData Analysis

Oyo

Project Associate

May 2021 – Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Planned supply for Q3 and Q4 of FY21 using demand and recovery metrics. Also led the development of ‘Nearby Widget’ improving visibility and conversion

Instat sport

Football Data Analyst

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo · Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland · Remote

Created a new metric for scouting to find better fits for the required playstyle. Also performed market studies to evaluate the viability of expanding the video streaming platform to South and South-East Asia.