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Nitish Shirish Keskar is a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce Research. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2017 and his Bachelors degree in 2012 from VJTI, Mumbai. During his PhD, he focused on problems in mathematical optimization, specifically those with stochasticity and nonlinearity. Nitish interned at IBM Research in 2014 and Intel in 2016. His publications include work on language modeling, machine translation, distributed optimization, speech recognition, and the effect of batch sizes on the generalization ability of deep networks.