Manoj Tumu

I work across causal ML, neural networks, GPU-scale training infrastructure, and semiconductor AI systems, with recent experience on ads ML research at Meta and foundation-model training infrastructure at AWS.

2025 - 2026

Meta · Machine Learning Engineer

Owned research, training, and development of a multimodal foundation model for causal understanding of ad campaign outcomes.

2024 - 2025

AWS · Software Development Engineer, AI/ML

Engineered ML infra for large-scale cloud models, optimizing GPU cluster scaling and distributed ML system performance.

2022 - 2024

ASML · Software Engineer

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2022

Uniquify · AI Research Engineer

Developed computer vision models for semiconductor chip defect detection.

Education

Sep 2022 - Dec 2023

UC San Diego · MS in Computer Science

Completed my master's while working full-time at ASML, with a concentration in AI.

Oct 2020 - Dec 2021

UC Santa Cruz · BS in Computer Science

Completed my undergrad degree in 1 year, graduating at 19, by earning some college credit in high school and accelerating the rest of my degree. Graduated cum laude and with highest honors in the major.

Research Experience

Graduate Research · UC San Diego

Tech4Good Lab · UC Santa Cruz