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10 Apple machine learning researchers
These ten current Apple machine learning researchers hold machine learning or AI research roles at Apple. A reader can learn what machine learning researcher work at Apple involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Goliński
LinkedInExperience: Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist · Apple
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at Apple since 2025 and Machine Learning Research Scientist there (2022–2025); a highlight describes research on uncertainty quantification, calibration and Bayesian reasoning for LLMs. Adam Goliński was a PhD student in machine learning at the University of Oxford (2017–2022).
Behrooz Mahasseni
LinkedInExperience: Principal Machine Learning Research Scientist · Apple
Principal Machine Learning Research Scientist at Apple in Cupertino since 2025, a role their profile lists in the research department. Behrooz Mahasseni was Staff Machine Learning Research Engineer at Apple (2020–2025) and Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer there (2017–2020), according to their profile.
Ibrahim El Shar
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Research Scientist · Apple
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Apple since 2025, with a headline describing work on personalized discovery. Ibrahim El Shar was Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech (2024–2025) and Machine Learning Scientist at Hitachi (2022–2024), and holds a PhD in deep reinforcement learning.
Jagannadan Varadarajan
LinkedInExperience: Principal Research Scientist (Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning) · Apple
Principal Research Scientist (Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning) at Apple in Singapore since 2020, according to their profile. Jagannadan Varadarajan was Head of Data Science (Machine Learning and Maps) at Grab (2019–2020) and Data Science Lead (Machine Learning) at Grab (2017–2019).
Jessica D.
LinkedInExperience: Senior Machine Learning Researcher AI ML Siri Search · Apple
Senior Machine Learning Researcher, AI ML Siri Search at Apple since 2025 and Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist there (2022–2025); their summary describes leading machine learning projects such as super-resolution of scanned images and device identification. Jessica D. was a research assistant at Carnegie Mellon University.
Miguel Ángel Bautista
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist, AI and ML Research · Apple
Staff Research Scientist, AI and ML Research at Apple since 2021 and Senior Research Scientist in the same group (2017–2021); their summary names research interests at the intersection of computer vision and machine learning. Miguel Ángel Bautista was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Heidelberg (2015–2017).
Nicholas Foti
LinkedInExperience: Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist · Apple
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist at Apple in Seattle since 2021 and Machine Learning Researcher there (2018–2021), according to their profile. Nicholas Foti was Research Scientist at the University of Washington (2017–2021) and a postdoctoral researcher there (2013–2017).
P. V. S. Avinesh
LinkedInExperience: Senior ML Research Scientist · Apple
Senior ML Research Scientist at Apple in Cupertino since 2019, a role a highlight ties to a mission of enabling intelligent assistants. P. V. S. Avinesh was a doctoral researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt (2015–2019) and an NLP and ML researcher at IBM (2013–2015).
Pierre Ablin
LinkedInExperience: Machine Learning Research Scientist · Apple
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Apple since 2022; their summary says they work in the Machine Learning Research group developing and studying machine learning algorithms, and their headline names LLM pre-training and data selection. Pierre Ablin was Chargé de recherches at CNRS (2021–2022).
Swetava Ganguli
LinkedInExperience: Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Services AI/ML · Apple
Staff Machine Learning Research Scientist, Services AI/ML at Apple since 2024, with Apple ML research scientist roles from 2018; their summary describes applications of deep learning that combine natural language processing and computer vision. Swetava Ganguli holds a Stanford PhD, according to their headline.
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Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does machine learning research at a product company balance publishing with shipping features?
- 02How do product constraints shape which machine learning research problems are worth working on?
- 03How does a research result move from a paper or prototype into a product?
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