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Aakash Anil Kolekar

AI Research Scientist @ Amazon Ads | Patents in Amazon Search Science | Working on Reasoning and Omni Models, Multi-Agent Workflows, Inference Optimization | Ex Amazon Search | Ex Flexport | Ex Quantiphi

United States
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Years Experience

28

Roles

58

Skills

4

Education

About

Aakash Anil Kolekar is a AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads Research at Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo with 42+ years of experience across 28 roles and studied Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Mumbai.

Experience (28 roles)

Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo

2 roles · Aug 2024 - Present

AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads Research

Current
Jun 2025 - Present · 3 mos·On-site

AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AI

Aug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr·On-site
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management · Seasonal

Guest Lecturer

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management · Seasonal

Aug 2024 - Sep 2024 · 2 mos·Arizona, United States · On-site

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Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo

2 roles · Aug 2023 - Aug 2024

AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AI

Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 · 5 mos·On-site

Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AI

Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 · 9 mos·On-site

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Education (4)

University of Mumbai

University of Mumbai

B

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans N.M.Institute of Science Munshi Nagar Andheri West Mumbai 400 058

Hansraj Morarji Public School - India

Hansraj Morarji Public School - India

Skills (58)

AngularCloudFrontS3MediumRedisAzureJiraGraphQLProtocol BuffersProject ManagementDjangoPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningData StructuresReact.jsRuby on RailsApache KafkaLarge Language Models (LLM)Computer ScienceReinforcement LearningAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data MiningData VisualizationData ScienceReactAWSPythonscikit-learnTableauTensorFlowMySQLDockerTypeScriptJavaGitONNXNVIDIA TensorRTApache AirflowSageMakerEKSCloudFormationEC2TerraformDynamoDBLambdaKubernetesApache SparkApache KafkaRubyGraphQLReactJavaScriptDjangoPHPDigital OceanDeep Neural Networks (DNN)PyTorchNatural Language Processing (NLP)
Certifications (20)

Agile with Atlassian Jira

Coursera

[New] Ultimate AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - 2020

Udemy

Natural Language Processing in Python Track

DataCamp

Learning Kubernetes

LinkedIn

Introduction to Natural Language Processing in Python

DataCamp

Advanced NLP with spaCy

DataCamp

Introduction to TensorFlow for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Coursera

Learning Docker

LinkedIn

Google Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Certification

Udemy

Spoken Language Processing in Python

DataCamp

LookML Developer

Looker

Sentiment Analysis in Python

DataCamp

A Natural Language Processing in Python Track

DataCamp

Applied Machine Learning in Python

Coursera

Building Chatbots in Python

DataCamp

DB0201EN: SQL for Data Science

IBM

Feature Engineering for NLP in Python

DataCamp

Introduction to Financial Markets

Indian School of Business

Entrepreneurship Foundations

LinkedIn

Data Analytics Fundamentals

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Publications (5)

A Product-Aware Query Auto-Completion Framework for E-Commerce Search via Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method

The 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval · Jul 14, 2024

MDRepo - an open environment for data warehousing and knowledge discovery from molecular dynamics simulations

Nucleic Acids Research · Jul 10, 2024

VISTAR: VISITING CARD BASED ON AUGMENTED REALITY

IJAECS:- INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE · Jul 7, 2020

SKYNET:- A platform for maximising career opportunities

IEEE:- Institute of Electrical and Electronics · Jan 16, 2021

Language Model Alignment for Conversational Shopping at Amazon

ACM SIGIR 2025 · Jul 14, 2025

Languages (4)
Hindi(Full professional proficiency)Marathi(Native or bilingual proficiency)French(Elementary proficiency)English(Full professional proficiency)
Honors & Awards (13)

Data Analytics Challenge Winner

Issued by University of Arizona · Sep 2021

Award For Academic Excellence

Issued by MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology · Aug 2018

Award For Academic Excellence

Issued by Agarwal Education Centre

Award For Academic Excellence

Issued by Brihan Mumbai Ganit Adhyapak Mandal · Sep 2008

Eller Set Aside Award For Excellence

Dec 2022

Certificate of Merit

Issued by The Bombay YMCA · Sep 2010

Award For Academic Excellence

Issued by MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology · Aug 2019

Eller Set Aside Award For Excellence

May 2022

Award For Academic Excellence

Issued by Agarwal Education Centre · Apr 2018

Master's Academic Award for Excellence

Dec 2022

Hackathon 2018

Issued by Vidyavardhini College Of Engineering and Technology · Oct 2018

Certificate of Merit

Issued by Hindustan Times · Oct 2012

National Level Project Presentation

Issued by MCT's Rajiv Gandhi Institute Of Technology · Mar 2019

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What is Aakash Anil Kolekar's current role?
Aakash Anil Kolekar is currently working as AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads Research at Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo.
Where did Aakash Anil Kolekar study?
Aakash Anil Kolekar studied Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Mumbai. They have 4 education entries on their profile.
What skills does Aakash Anil Kolekar have?
Aakash Anil Kolekar's top skills include Angular, CloudFront, S3, Medium, Redis. They have 58 skills listed on their profile.
Where is Aakash Anil Kolekar based?
Aakash Anil Kolekar is based in United States.

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