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Abhijit Manatkar

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CTO at Layrd

San Francisco, California, United States

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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.

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Entrepreneur FirstBengaluru · $1M – $7M checksTranspose Platform ManagementSan Francisco

Co-founders at Layrd

TCTejasvi Chebrolu
Tejasvi ChebroluCEO
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Tattvam NairCOO

Experience

  1. LAYRDCo-founder and CTOcurrent2025 — present
  2. IBMResearch Engineer2023 — 2025Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  3. Machine Learning Lab, IIIT-HUndergraduate Researcher2021 — 2023
  4. IBMResearch Intern2022Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  5. STEMpediaSoftware Development Intern2021

Skills & more

Machine LearningData ScienceReinforcement LearningData StructuresAlgorithmsPython1JavaScript1C++1React.jsNode.jsSQLMongoDB
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Who is Abhijit Manatkar?
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.
Where does Abhijit Manatkar work?
Abhijit Manatkar is CTO of Layrd.
What companies did Abhijit Manatkar found?
Abhijit Manatkar founded Layrd.
Where did Abhijit Manatkar go to school?
Abhijit Manatkar studied at International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) (Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science); Pace Junior Science College (Higher Secondary Certificate); St. Xavier's Boys' Academy (Senior Secondary Certificate).

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