Ketan Mandke

• Advisor: Scott Nettles
• Area: Communications, Networks, and Systems
• Thesis: Validating Wireless Network Simulations Using Direct Execution

Google

• Developing best practices and guidance for ML projects for internal enterprise applications.
• Building solutions to make it easier to develop, deploy, and maintain ML systems.
• Enabling robust and healthy ML systems through evangelizing ML ops best practices.
• Implementing tool use with large language models and exploring agentic workflows.

• Horizontal team bringing applied ML research to internal Google products and services.
• Technical lead setting strategy on ML projects for Legal (200+ person org).
• Deployed ML pipelines to reduce toil and scale operations in legal space.
• Developed best practices for ML projects in legal and compliance space.
• Set strategy for developing practical applications of large language models in legal space.

• Cross team project: Brain / Perception.
• Built machine learning service.
• Contextual bandits for systems and UX problems.
• Deployed ML models to tune compiler flags saving $XX million.
• Developed flexible model framework that enabled contextual bandits for many modalities.
• Bandits with featurized arms, multi-objective optimization, constrained optimization.

• Making ML accessible to everyone.
• Learning on dynamic graphs.
• Developing machine learning infrastructure.

• Building wireless systems to expand Internet access.
• Software defined networking.
• Wireless network simulation of 60 GHz mesh networks.

Ticom Geomatics, Inc.

• Design and implement solutions for geolocating wireless signals.
• Implemented framework for building software-defined radios.
• Software and system architecture design for collection/geolocation systems.

The University of Texas at Austin

• Developed software architecture for the Hydra testbed.
• Led team of graduate students integrating software/hardware components of Hydra.
• Experimental evaluation of adaptive wireless protocols.

• Developed code and lab manual for lab component of Wireless Communications Lab.
• Administered lab in spring 2006.

• Communication Networks: Technology, Architectures, and Protocols (January - May 2011).
• Data Structures (September - December 2007, September - December 2008).
• Wireless Communications Lab (September 2005 - May 2006).
• Computer Architecture (June - August 2002).

Technical Consulting

• Examine propietary software to determine veracity of patent claims.

Sandia National Laboratories

• Developed simulation for channel modeling of networked objects in space.
• Surveyed research literature on cooperative techniques in wireless communication.

National Instruments

• Redesigned interpolation filters for Dynamic Signal Analyzer (DSA) product.
• Developed VHDL design and LabVIEW code to simulate design.

Texas Instruments

• Designed and developed Board Support Library (BSL) for DSP development board.