# Manav Rathod > Modeling @ Simile Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/manav I studied at UC Berkeley majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Business Administration, part of the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology Program. Then, got my Master's at Berkeley in Computer Science, specializing in NLP, and was advised by Dr. Marti Hearst. I am primarily interested in Software Engineering, Machine Learning, and Research positions. ## Work Experience ### Member of Technical Staff @ Simile Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Glean Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States Search and Intelligence Team ### NLP Researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Conducting research at the intersection of Education and NLP under Prof. Marti Hearst and Ph.D. student Katie Stasaski. Currently exploring reinforcement learning approaches to increase the lexical diversity of answer-aware question generation models. ### Teaching Assistant — Info 159 @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States Creating content and holding office hours for an undergraduate course in Natural Language Processing. ### Undergraduate Student Instructor — EECS 16B @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Leading discussions in EECS 16B, an introductory course in Electrical Engineering covering several topics such as Transistor Circuit Design, Phasor-Based Circuit Analysis, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Signal Processing, etc. ### Course Tutor — CS 189 @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States Guide students in discussion sections and homework parties to help develop their knowledge of introductory machine learning content. Cover topics such as Logistic Regression, SVMs, Neural Networks, GDA, Spectral Graph Theory, etc. ### Content Developer — CS 169 @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States One of the pioneer PrarieLearn developers at Berkeley. Developed practice problems for CS 169, Software Engineering. Wrote randomly generated questions using HTML/Handlebars/Python. Implemented DevOps to facilitate development. Provided mentorship for junior developers through pair programming and code review. ### Lab Teaching Assistant — EE 16A @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA Teaching Assistant for Designing Information Devices and Systems I at the University of California, Berkeley. Helped students apply conceptual knowledge of Linear Algebra and Circuit Design to gain practical experience in building circuits and sensors. Taught usage of NumPy library. ### HCI Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States Conducted Human-Computer Interaction research in Computer Science Education. Investigated the prevalence of gender bias in pair programming with the intent to generate effective interventions. Developed online platform for hosting remote pair programming exercises using JavaScript/HTML/CSS + Flask. ### Academic Intern — CS 61A @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA, United States Helped students in Introductory Computer Science Course (CS 61A) with labs and homework assignments. Covered various core computer science topics including recursion, object-oriented programming, data abstraction, iteration, how interpreters work, etc. Used Python, Scheme, and SQL. ### Berkeley Educators Engineering Software @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California, United States Developing software for Introductory Computer Science class (with 1000+ students) to improve course resources and curriculum. Contributed to an online code editor that allows students to write code and share it with instructors. Designed new project ideas for students to implement as part of their coursework. Used React + Flask + SQL. ### Machine Learning Engineering Intern @ AppLovin Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote Led the development of a new NLP powered recommendation system, using language models to translate app descriptions into feature vectors to improve quality of clustering and Ad bidding models. Implemented contrastive learning and denoising autoencoding training methods to improve embeddings models on in-domain data using Tensorflow/Keras. ### Lead Researcher @ MetroBot Research Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Designed ROS server architecture for managing robot interactions and responses. Developed a friendly Robot face, using React.JS, to interact with people. Implemented a HuggingFace RoBERTa model for emotion-detection to allow for robot responses to human interactions. Integrating facial detection and memory systems to record interactions with people. ### Founder @ MetroBot Research Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Created and manage a team of students to develop an open-source robot platform for the purpose of conducting research into Human-Robot Social Interactions. Proposed research questions and project specs. Raised $10,000+ in grant funding. ### President @ Berkeley M.E.T. Student Board Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Leading organization to help achieve our goals for the M.E.T. community. ### VP Social Relations @ Berkeley M.E.T. Student Board Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California Coordinated and executed social events for M.E.T. cohort to revitalize friendships across classes through cohort trips, mentorship programs, and social nights, all under budget. ### NLP Intern @ Reveal Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States NLP Intern on the Core Data Science/AI Team building models to improve the eDiscovery platform. Created SVM and BERT models for document classification. Developed and executed implementation and evaluation plan for cross-lingual transfer using Multilingual BERT. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zippity, Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Developed database design to manage route creation for efficiently servicing customers. Created Recommendation Engine for managing and automating customer upsells to drastically increase sales. Implemented several improvements UI/UX of Customer Application. Spearheaded development of backend testing suite. Used React.JS and Python/Flask. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington Led redesign of Facebook Instant Games on Web to make it faster, more modern, and relevant, using React.JS and PHP/XHP/Hack. Used GraphQL for client-side data fetching. Collaborated with the design team to implement modern styling practices. Performed A/B tests to monitor the impact of new features on core metrics, enabling data-driven product development. Currently used by millions of users. ### Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Okemos, Michigan Tutored students ages 5-17 in mathematics using innovative teaching methods that emphasized understanding over simply doing. Resulted in drastic improvements in standardized test scores. ### Researcher, Edger Lab @ Michigan State University Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | East Lansing, Michigan Conducted research in Bioinformatics. Analyzed gene expression levels in a diploid woodland strawberry using co-expression network analysis in R. Confirmed a relationship between methylation levels and module construction. Wrote internal paper used in developing future lab projects. ### Research Assistant, Benning Lab @ Michigan State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Michigan State University Investigated the role of protein RBL10 in plant growth and development. Performed various lab protocols, including RNA extraction, cDNA synthesis, PCR, gel electrophoresis, and lipid extraction. Led experiment testing the effects of drought on mutant plants. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Business Administration University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### EECS & Business Track UC Berkeley Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science UC Berkeley College of Engineering Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### Lansing Community College Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Michigan State University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Okemos High School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manavrathod --- Source: https://flows.cv/manav JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/manav/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22