Georgetown University
PhD, Computer Science
2020 – 2025 · Washington DC, USA
Hrishikesh Kulkarni
I am an information retrieval researcher and machine learning engineer, building search at Instacart. I hold a PhD from Georgetown, where I focused on efficient neural retrieval, nearest neighbor search and LLMs for search.
Education
Savitribai Phule Pune University
BE, Computer Engineering
2016 – 2020 · PVGCOET, Pune MH, India
Experience
Research & Development
- InstacartJun 2025 – PresentMachine Learning Engineer IIRemote, USA
- Lowe’s Companies Inc.May 2024 – Aug 2024Data Science InternCharlotte NC, USA
- Georgetown UniversityAug 2020 – May 2025Research AssistantWashington DC, USA
- National Insurance AcademyJun 2019 – Aug 2019Research InternPune MH, India
- Google Summer of Code (GCC)May 2018 – Aug 2018Summer InternRemote, India
Teaching
- Information Retrieval COSC-488Aug 2022 – Dec 2022Teaching AssistantGeorgetown University
- Intro to DBMS COSC-280Aug 2022 – Dec 2022Teaching AssistantGeorgetown University
- Data Mining COSC-285Aug 2021 – Dec 2021Teaching AssistantGeorgetown University
- Open Source ClubAug 2018 – May 2020Founder and MentorPune MH, India
Publications
28 papers · 1 patent2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
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Computational Psychology to Embed Emotions into Advertisements to Develop Emotional Bonding
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Machine Learning Based Cultural Suitability Index (CSI) for Right Task Allocation
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Multi-Agent System for Customer Behavior Tracking Using Shoppers Path Traversal
2018
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Cultural Affinity through Associative Machine Learning and Behavioral Computation
2017
Honors & Awards
- LADR (SIGIR ’23) now implemented in Apache Lucene, which powers Fortune 500 search engines
- ECIR 2025 Support Grant
- NSF Student Travel Grant for Generative AI Workshop at Microsoft Research 2023
- ACM SIGIR 2023 Student Travel Grant
- Merit-based Graduate School full tuition scholarship and research assistantship stipend award for 5 years — Georgetown University 2020
- Best Outgoing Student Award: Computer Engineering, PVGCOET, SPPU, Pune 2019–2020
- Best Paper Award: Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Bradly Alicea, “Cultural Association Based on Machine Learning for Team Formation”, IEEE ICCUBEA 2019
- Best Paper Award: Hrishikesh Kulkarni, “Contextual Data Representation Using Prime Number Route Mapping Method and Ontology”, IEEE ICCUBEA 2017
- Founded Open Source Club at PVGCOET Pune 2018
- Student representative for IQAC (Internal Quality Assurance Cell) PVGCOET 2018–2020 (out of 1200 students)
- PVG Merit Award: First admission award — 2016 (out of 500 students)
- Stood Sixth in High School Scholarship — 2011 (out of 30000 students)
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