Hey there! 👋

I’m Jash, an Applied Research Scientist at SLAM Labs, ServiceNow, where I work on the Apriel model family — a suite of open-weight large language models built for enterprise agentic tasks and efficient inference. Our latest model, Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker, leads the field in the Small AI Models (4B–40B) category on the Artificial Intelligence Index, achieving a score of 52 on AAI — on par with models like DeepSeek R1 0528 and Gemini 2.5 Flash, while being over 10× smaller in size.

I hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, where I worked with Professor Ling Liu on advancing privacy and security in large language models. Before that, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.

In the past, I’ve collaborated with Dr. Zeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, SFU) on improving hate speech detection systems, and with Swapneel Mehta (Boston University & MIT) and Akash Srivastava (MIT-IBM AI Lab) at Unicode Research. I’ve been fortunate to work with such brilliant mentors and grateful to them for their advice and support.

Outside of work, I’m passionate about high-altitude trekking and discovering unexplored places. I also enjoy playing table tennis, chess, and reading novels in my spare time.