About me
Aakanksha has been a lead researcher in pre-training large language models, such as PaLM and Gemini. She led the 540B PaLM model at Google and was a core member of the Gemini, Pathways, PaLM-E and MedPaLM projects. Before Google, she led interdisciplinary teams at Microsoft Research and Princeton University across machine learning, distributed systems and networking. Recently, she joined the Llama team at Meta. She completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and was awarded the Paul Baran Marconi Young Scholar Award for the outstanding scientific contributions in her dissertation.