Nikhil Thorat
Co-creator of TensorFlow.js at Google Brain and co-founder of Lilac AI; now at Anthropic
Nikhil Thorat's GitHub profile bio names Anthropic, and lists previous work on AI quality at Databricks after co-founding Lilac AI, which Databricks acquired. At Google Brain, Thorat co-created TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data. Thorat is co-first author, with Daniel Smilkov, of the 2019 TensorFlow.js paper, which describes a library for building and running machine learning models in JavaScript, in the web browser and in Node.js, enabling on-device computation; the tfjs repository is released under the Apache 2.0 license.123
Work
TensorFlow.js (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Co-first author, listed with Google Brain, of the 2019 paper describing the design, API, and implementation of TensorFlow.js; Thorat's GitHub profile describes Thorat as a co-creator of the Apache-2.0-licensed library.213
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Worked on AI quality, Databricks1
- Co-founder, Lilac AI1
- Co-creator of TensorFlow.js and Know Your Data, Google Brain12
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