Machine learning scientist

Abishek Sankararaman

I am an ML research scientist and engineer working on online learning, anomaly detection, agent memory and orchestration, and learning problems in stochastic networks. My work includes theoretical research and deployed machine-learning systems.

Abishek Sankararaman in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park

Industry work

Selected systems and projects

At AWS, I have worked on machine-learning systems for security, agent memory and orchestration, and structured-data applications.

01

GuardDuty for RDS Protection

GuardDuty for RDS Protection uses unsupervised online models to learn account-specific behavior and detect anomalous database login activity. I worked on the statistical methods and production system from initial research through launch and subsequent operation.

02

Agent memory and context

I have worked on memory, orchestration, evaluation, and personal knowledge graphs for agents. Related capabilities are used in Amazon Quick and the SageMaker assistant.

03

Structured data and text-to-SQL

I have worked on language-model systems for structured data, including text-to-SQL and schema disambiguation. This work contributed to capabilities in Amazon Quick and to the ODIN research project.

Research interests

Research areas

My research includes online learning and sequential decision-making, anomaly detection, stochastic networks, random graphs, and distributed algorithms.

Online learning Agentic systems Anomaly detection Sequential inference Stochastic networks Random graphs

Collaboration

Academic collaborators

Background

Academic and industry experience

AWS, 2020–2026. Worked on adaptive security systems, agent memory and orchestration, and structured-data capabilities for Amazon Quick and SageMaker.

Academic training. Postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley with Venkat Anantharam; PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics at UT Austin with François Baccelli; B.Tech. and M.Tech. from IIT Madras.