# Hars Vardhan, PhD > Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/hars ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer | AIML @ Apple Jan 2021 – Present | United States ### Senior Staff Research Scientist @ Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose - Deployed optimized perception deep learning models into autonomous driving platform. - Deploying low precision/ mixed precision inference of DL models to autonomous stack. - Cross-functional collaboration across teams to design and evaluate a practical next-generation computing system for mobility software stack. ### Staff Research Scientist @ Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Jose - Architected, built and maintaining a linearly scalable deep learning training HPC system. - Next generation hardware exploration for accelerated inference and training of Deep Learning applications. ### Staff Research Engineer @ Samsung Research America Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, CA GPU-Accelerated computing platform for large scale Deep Learning applications. Research on the use of half precision floating point in deep learning training. Worked on development of Cloud Platform for intelligent systems. Development of resource affinity for Hadoop YARN, along with resource exclusivity. ### Graduate Researcher / Teaching Assistant @ University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 | Richardson, TX Devise programming projects, Evaluate assignments, Conduct tests, Computer lab assistance Subjects: Advanced Operating Systems, Advanced Computer Networks, Mobile Computing, Combinatorics and Graph Algorithms, Telecommunications Network Management, Computer Science II: Java ### Research Assistant @ University of Texas at Dallas Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Richardson, TX Network Planning Tool for Packet Transport Network: A corporate sponsored research project in which I was benefited by working in a team of six students. I designed and implemented constrained based failure adaptive network routing protocols which helped in to optimize the packet routing. To making the tool more perceivable, I developed software (GUI) in C++.NET for realization of routing of Link State Packets and equipments usage. ### System Software Intern @ Intel Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Hillsboro, Oregon RouterBricks–Enabling General Purpose Network Infrastructure: A software based scalable and programmable router. Contribution: System validation, User-space interaction and NAT features development. Project: http://routebricks.org/ ### Software Engineer (Consultant) @ Motorola Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 WAP based Ad-application for Mobile Platform: The application fetches ads Over The Air (OTA) from the Google ad-server, which are contextually related to the message being read. I was responsible for transport layer Content Delivery module of the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) architecture. In addition to it, I implemented customized http cache and UI modules to achieve full integration. I was also involved in software debugging using phone simulator to ensure the functional specification of the software. ### QA Intern @ VMware Jan 2005 – Jan 2005 Functional Verification of ESX: ESX is a virtualization technology based server. I was responsible for functional testing of the software must comply with requirements. It included file systems, hardware as well as various operating system interaction with the software. I was also involved in the complete test automation of the UI of ESX which expedited the testing process. ## Education ### PhD in Computer Science The University of Texas at Dallas ### Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering Manipal Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harsv - Portfolio: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=826Lj8kAAAAJ --- Source: https://flows.cv/hars JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/hars/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12