About
Abhijit holds a computer science degree from IIIT Hyderabad, one of India's most selective technical institutes. He previously led large language model research at IBM Research focused on automating insight extraction, and has authored multiple papers accepted at leading machine learning venues including AAAI and EMNLP.
CTO at Layrd
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Experience
- LAYRDCo-founder and CTOcurrent2025 — present
- IBMResearch Engineer2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Machine Learning Lab, IIIT-HUndergraduate Researcher2021 — 2023
- IBMResearch Intern2022Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- STEMpediaSoftware Development Intern2021
Education
- International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science2019 — 2023
- Pace Junior Science CollegeHigher Secondary Certificate2017 — 2019
- St. Xavier's Boys' AcademySenior Secondary Certificate2005 — 2017
Skills & more
Machine LearningData ScienceReinforcement LearningData StructuresAlgorithmsPython1JavaScript1C++1React.jsNode.jsSQLMongoDB
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Frequently asked questions
- Where does Abhijit Manatkar work?
- Abhijit Manatkar is CTO at Layrd.
- What companies did Abhijit Manatkar found?
- Abhijit Manatkar founded Layrd.
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Pace Junior Science College mafia4
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