Manikanta Loya

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States3 yrs 11 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Published in top-tier venues like EMNLP and AAAI.
  • Improved model robustness and created scalable AI pipelines.
  • Developed innovative AI solutions with significant efficiency gains.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and AI specialist with a strong focus on healthcare applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Large Language Model Operations (llmops)Natural Language Processing (nlp)Model DeploymentMachine Learning AlgorithmsDeep LearningBig Data AnalyticsAmazon Web Services (aws)Software DevelopmentNetworkingComputer Vision

Other Skills

AdversarialAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithmsAmazon EC2Amazon S3Apache SparkCC (Programming Language)C++Computer ScienceConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Customer ServiceData StructuresDeep Neural Networks (DNN)Distributed Systems

About

Passionate about Machine Learning and LLMs, building AI systems that turn complex problems into practical solutions. Work spans research and real-world applications, from improving model robustness to creating scalable AI pipelines. Published in top-tier venues like EMNLP and AAAI, with 83 citations, exploring LLM evaluation, adversarial robustness, and reliable AI. Driven by curiosity, collaboration, and a desire to make AI systems trustworthy and impactful.

Experience

3 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
9 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer Machine

Jun 2025Present · 1 yr · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

  • Infra @ Meta
C++Artificial Intelligence (AI)Rust (Programming Language)PythonPyTorchTransformer Models+1

Evidium

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Aug 2023May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • Researched and implemented a neuro-symbolic AI platform, enhancing Neural Entity Linking (NEL) accuracy by ∼10%.
  • Developed a Retrieval−Augmented Generation (RAG) Clinical Copilot Chatbot, improving retrieval efficiency by ∼48%.
  • Designed an MLOps pipeline for high-volume entity extraction from clinical PDFs, processing vast amounts of unstructured healthcare data.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Model DeploymentRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)Rust (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)Machine Learning Algorithms+1

Uc irvine

2 roles

Graduate Student Researcher

Sep 2022Jun 2023 · 9 mos · Irvine, California, United States

  • Researched data poisoning attacks on large language models (Incoder, PolyCoder) to identify vulnerabilities.
  • Developed defense mechanisms through data preprocessing and fine-tuning PTLMs to improve robustness.
  • Built and maintained Maestro, a gamified platform for teaching adversarial machine learning.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)PythonDeep Neural Networks (DNN)Git+1

Graduate Student Researcher

Jan 2022Jun 2022 · 5 mos · Irvine, California, United States

  • Built and maintained gamified platform – Maestro, an educative tool for teaching Adversarial Machine Learning.
  • Developed dataset, programming assignments and evaluation metrics for the platform.
Image ProcessingNatural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)FlaskPython (Programming Language)+5

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2022Sep 2022 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Designed, built, and tested BigData applications on large scale data for EBS Snapshots team.
  • Learned and worked on big data software frameworks such as Spark and Hadoop.
  • Gained working knowledge of AWS services, such as Elastic Cloud Compute(EC2), Elastic Block Storage(EBS), IAM, and Simple Storage Service(S3).
  • Optimized current workflow runtime by ~50% and the associated cost by ~60%
MapReduceBig Data AnalyticsAmazon Web Services (AWS)ProgrammingAmazon EC2Python+4

International institute of information technology, hyderabad

Research Assistant

Oct 2020Mar 2021 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Researched on Adversarial Learning and Fairness of Machine Learning algorithms advised by Prof. Naresh Manwani
  • Studied FGSM, JSMA, Deep Fool, Black box attacks, Evasive Attacks, Convex Optimization, Quadratic Programming
  • Explored highly cited publications and executed code in Python and R using frameworks R Studio, PyTorch, TensorFlow
Image ProcessingResearchDeep LearningArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)Machine Learning+4

Samsung electronics

2 roles

Software Engineer

Aug 2019Feb 2020 · 6 mos

  • Developed 5G Cellular Dongles interface in Samsung TV in collaboration with SK Telecom as lead developer
  • Studied modem protocols such as MBIM, QMI and integrated into TV stack to achieve best results. Projects were showcased in
  • CES 2020 (‘5G-8K TV’, ‘Callar for Sero TV’ (AR video call))
TeamworkProgrammingSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jul 2017Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Conducted research into latest advancements in Connectivity domain and structured use-cases for Samsung product
  • Designed and developed interface for 4G cellular dongles into Samsung TV and maintained 3G dongle support
  • Optimized performance and boosted reliability of wireless & cellular internet connection. Recommended network changes and
  • reduced internet connection time for cellular networks by 83%
  • Collaborated closely with senior engineers and enhanced convergence features such as Wake on Wireless, Screen Mirroring
  • Mentored software engineer & software intern and organized team building activities
  • Gained in-depth knowledge of networking protocols such as TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPv6, DNS and Linux, Tizen OS
C (Programming Language)Algorithm DevelopmentAlgorithmsC++TeamworkOperating Systems+6

Indian institute of technology (banaras hindu university), varanasi

Summer Research Intern

May 2016Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Varanasi Tehsil, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Devised a novel method to detect a fault in rolling bearing and enhanced accuracy
  • Preprocessing involved signal decomposition techniques namely EEMD and EWT
  • Built a convolution neural network (CNN) for extracting features and classified by deploying in Python (93% accuracy)
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Amazon S3KerasPython (Programming Language)Computer VisionTensorFlow

Education

UC Irvine

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Sep 2021Jun 2023

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

Jan 2013Jan 2017

Sainik School

12th

Jan 2010Jan 2012

Sainik School

10th

Jan 2005Jan 2010

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