Sumuk Shashidhar

I work on Language Model Intelligence and help build the next generation of evals. I am currently a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, advised by Dilek Hakkani-Tur.

Previously, I worked at Hugging Face, Rivian, and Yahoo Research. I am a member of Giving What We Can and have pledged to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to charity.

Contact: sumuk [at] sumuk.org or @sumukx.

Work

• Aug 2025 - Present: Prime Intellect - AI Resident.
• Jan 2025 - Aug 2025: Hugging Face - YourBench.
• Sep 2023 - May 2025: Rivian - R2 new features (NDA).
• May 2023 - Aug 2023: Yahoo - ML for ad pricing on DSP.