Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak

Pronouns: he/him

Researcher, IBM Research, International Business Machines

  • Joined September 2024

Names

Nikhil Shivakumar Nayak (Preferred)
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Nikhil Nayak

Emails

****@ibm.com (Confirmed)
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****@g.harvard.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
IBM Research, International Business Machines (ibm.com)
2024 – Present
 
MS student
Computer Science, SEAS, Harvard University, Harvard University (g.harvard.edu)
2022 – 2024
 
Undergrad student
Computer Science and Engineering, R V College of Engineering (rvce.edu.in)
2017 – 2021
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

large language models, model fine-tuning, instruction tuning, parameter-efficient learning
2024 – Present
 
model reasoning, mathematical reasoning, theorem proving, search
2024 – Present
 
graph neural networks, positional encoding, node classification
2023 – Present
 
interpretability, explainability, faithfulness of large language models
2022 – Present
 
reinforcement learning, biological motor control, actor-critic methods
2022 – Present