Anish Doshi

Who I am

• My name is pronounced An-eesh but I can recognize my name pretty easily no matter what variation of it is spoken. 
• I’m currently based in SF. I originally came to the Bay Area from Illinois around 2013 to attend school at Berkeley. Since then, I’ve basically lived in every major “tech” area in the Bay - Berkeley, SF, Cupertino, Sunnyvale. I also visit NYC pretty often to see my sister, grandma, and some of my closest friends.
• I’m Indian American - I grew up in Barrington, Illinois, but my Mom and Dad are both from Gujarat, a state in northwest India.
• I speak English, decent Gujarati and an ever so tiny amount of Spanish (or at least Duolingo thinks so). 
• I’m vegan, and if you hang out with me long enough, you might become vegan too. 

What I am currently interested in

• Program synthesis, recommendation
• Language modeling & NLP
• Turning ideas in machine learning into human-compatible products
• “Robust” AI in any form - making the outputs of LLMs more secure, controllable, and verifiable without compromising on their quality.

Some work I am proud of

• Here is a sample of things I have written that I take pride in. They reflect late nights grinding out research projects with grad school classmates, projects I built out for company hackathons that turned into full features, or just solo projects I thought were cool.

• This is a small selection as work artifacts are varied and mostly behind NDAs :) You can get similar insights from my CV.

• The transform-by-example feature at Trifacta (now Alteryx), which was inspired by BlinkFill

• An autoencoder-based collaborative recommendation system for data transformation programs

• An algorithm for using decision trees and symbolic regression to solve syntax guided synthesis problems with black-box oracles

• Using a modified GAN to directly output mel-spectrograms that both visually and statistically fool CNN based speaker detection models

• An end-to-end SQL synthesis platform blending prompt engineering, program ranking, and formal query postprocessing

• This paper I was a coauthor on with my sister, Dr. Anjali Doshi

What I do for fun

• Learning piano again, some classical songs
• Boxing
• Hiking
• Play chess online
• Sleep