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Ashutosh Sharma

Ashutosh Sharma is a research engineer at IBM Research, where he develops Granite language models and leads infrastructure for agentic reinforcement learning. He earned an honors B.Tech in mechanical engineering at IIT Bombay, with minors in computer science and artificial intelligence, and an M.S. in computer science at UIUC. His papers introduced DSPy, a programming model for language-model pipelines; ANGEL, an enterprise search system for nonprofit funding matches; and IndicIRSuite, neural retrieval resources for 11 Indian languages. He coauthored a 2025 paper on multimodal image generation for breast cancer detection. During a 2024 Amazon internship, he fine-tuned language models for product matching and joined the 2025 Siebel Scholars class.

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Timeline

  1. July 2019–May 2025

    Degrees at IIT Bombay and UIUC

    At IIT Bombay, he earns an honors B.Tech in mechanical engineering in 2023, with minors in computer science and artificial intelligence. At UIUC, he completes an M.S. in computer science in 2025.

  2. 2023

    DSPy pipelines

    In 2023, he coauthors the DSPy paper, which introduces a programming model that represents language-model pipelines as text-transformation graphs.

  3. 2023

    ANGEL nonprofit search

    In 2023, he coauthors ANGEL, an enterprise search system that matches nonprofit fund-seekers with fund-givers.

  4. 2024

    IndicIRSuite neural retrieval

    In 2024, he coauthors IndicIRSuite, which introduces neural information-retrieval resources for 11 widely spoken Indian languages.

  5. 2024

    Amazon applied science internship

    In summer 2024, he works as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon and fine-tunes language models for product catalog matching.

  6. 2025

    Multimodal breast cancer imaging

    In 2025, he coauthors a paper on multimodal image generation for breast cancer detection.

  7. 2025

    A Siebel Scholar

    He joins the 2025 Siebel Scholars class.

  8. Since 2025

    Research engineer at IBM

    In June 2025, he joins IBM Research as a research engineer. He develops the Granite family of language models and leads infrastructure for agentic reinforcement learning.

Career

  1. Since 2025IBM ResearchResearch engineer
  2. 2024AmazonApplied Scientist Intern

Education

  1. 2025University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignM.S.
  2. 2023IIT BombayB.Tech

From the biography.

  1. Google alumni founded or led 82 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Ashutosh Sharma. We trace 189 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 196 career moves between the labs.
  2. 14% of AI career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyIncludes Ashutosh Sharma. Our estimates of how university-to-company career transitions changed by decade, including roles added alongside an earlier job.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 3% to 32%Includes IBM. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 3% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes IBM. Our estimates of combined and median h-index at AI organizations, using current affiliations and OpenAlex records.

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Sources and credits

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  1. Ashutosh Sharma ashutoshuiuc.github.io. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. Domain generalization for sequential data via invariant subspace recovery | IDEALS ideals.illinois.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines arxiv.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Angel: Enterprise Search System for the Non-Profit Industry aclanthology.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. IndicIRSuite: Multilingual Dataset and Neural Information Models for Indian Languages aclanthology.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  6. FY25 Annual Report | Siebel School of Computing and Data Science | Illinois siebelschool.illinois.edu. Checked 18 October 2026.