Vivek Bharadwaj

Machine Learning, Platform Architecture @ Apple

San Francisco Bay Area

About

I'm an ML Engineer at Apple in the platform architecture group. I recently completed my PhD in the Berkeley EECS department, where I studied high-performance computing and numerical linear algebra. I was funded by a Department of Energy Computational Science graduate fellowship. See my personal website, vivek-bharadwaj.com, for more details.

Experience

  • Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
    Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • PHD Candidate at University of California, Berkeley
    Sep 2020 - Aug 2025 · 5 yrs

    Geometric deep learning, sparse computations, randomized algorithms, and graph problems, advised by Jim Demmel and Aydın Buluç in the fantastic EECS department.

  • Math Libraries Team, Intern at NVIDIA
    Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos

    Worked on cuSPARSELt, a library for structured sparse-times-dense matrix multiplication for ML workloads, and explored JIT capabilities for cuSPARSE.

  • Teaching Assistant at Caltech
    Dec 2017 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    CS38: Algorithms (3 quarters), CS21: Decidability and Tractability (1 quarter)

  • Software Engineer Intern at Jane Street
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos