Rishi Malhotra

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ML Engineer,

Apple

Sunnyvale, CA

I’m an ML Research Engineer at Apple. Currently, I work on using Reinforcement Learning to train LLMs to induce certain behaviors. I am interested in research on Reinforcement Learning for LLMs and VLA models.

Check out my blog at this link


Experience

Machine Learning Research Engineer @ Apple

2025 - Present

RL training LLMs to improve performance of Apple Intelligence Writing Tools

Data Scientist @ Microsoft

2023 - 2025

Trained LLMs for code completion

Founder, various startups

2022

Built a lot of software

Data Scientist Intern @ Microsoft

2022

Trained DNNs for hardware failure prediction

Data Scientist Intern @ Microsoft

2021

Training BERT classifier for ticket classification

Education

Cornell University

2019 - 2023

BS in Computer Science. Focussed on Machine Learning