Amit Yadav
Fern | ex-Meta AI Scientist | PhD in AI | Director’s Medal IIT
Experience
Career
2026Fern
Co-founderCofounder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2026 – Present
2025PANIIT USA
Member Board of Directors · United States · 2025 – Present
2024Meta
Research Scientist · California, United States · 2024 – 2026
2021Purdue University Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Assistant, VIPER Lab · West Lafayette, IN · 2021 – 2024
2020Enphase Energy
Embedded Software Engineer · Bengaluru · 2020 – 2021
2020Rakuten Institute of Technology
Research Intern · Bengaluru · 2020
2019Mitacs
Research Intern · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada · 2019
2018JAIST
Research Intern · Ishikawa · 2018
2017Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Club Secretary · Gandhinagar, Gujrat, India · 2017 – 2018
- 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Convenor IGNITE 4.0 · Gujarat, India · 2017 – 2018
- 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Representative · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · 2017 – 2018
- 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Blithchron Sponsorship Team Member · 2016 – 2017
- 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN)
Class Representative · Ahmedabad Area, India · 2016 – 2017
- 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Fellowship · India · 2017
- 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Technical Coordinator IGNITE 3.0 · Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat, India · 2016 – 2017
- 2017
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Representative · Kanpur Area, India · 2017
- 2016
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar
Representative · Kanpur Area, India · 2016
Bio
Cofounder and CEO at Ishiki Labs (W26). Previously: Research Scientist, first in LlaMA team training multimodal LLMs and then in Reality Labs at Meta training video assistant for smart glasses. PhD from Purdue University with 20+ publications at top conferences like CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICASSP