Aditya Jaishankar
I am currently a Senior Data Scientist at The New York Times. I am full-stack data scientist with experience building, deploying and maintaining several ML models in production on a variety of NLP, time series analysis, supervised learning, and propensity modeling problems on massive datasets and text corpora. I also work with the investigative journalism team to assist with ML-based language modeling tasks.Previously, I was a Fellow at Insight Data Science Fellows Program, and deployed an ML-based product that prescribes events to organize at farmers market managers to increase turnout.
By training, I am a soft matter physicist and surface scientist with experience in theoretical, computational and experimental work. At ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research Lab I largely worked on climate change related problems. I led a research program on discovering new hydrocarbon-based infrastructural materials as substitutes for CO2 intensive steel and concrete, worked on mathematical models to enable scalable and economically viable solutions for the capture of CO2 directly from air, and developed molecularly thick self-assembled surfaces that provide ultra-low friction for more fuel efficient engines.
I received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June 2014. I worked with Professor Gareth McKinley in the Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics Group. I was a recipient of MIT Presidential Fellowship.
Selected Publications
- Jaishankar, A., Jusufi, A., Vreeland, J.L., Deighton, S., Pellettiere, J. and Schilowitz, A.M., 2019. Adsorption of Stearic Acid at the Iron Oxide/Oil Interface: Theory, Experiments, and Modeling. Langmuir, 35(6), pp.2033-2046.
DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03132 - Jaishankar, A., Wee, M., Matia-Merino, L., Goh, K.K. and McKinley, G.H., 2015. Probing hydrogen bond interactions in a shear thickening polysaccharide using nonlinear shear and extensional rheology. Carbohydrate polymers, 123, pp.136-145.
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.01.006 - Jaishankar, A. and McKinley, G.H., 2014. A fractional K-BKZ constitutive formulation for describing the nonlinear rheology of multiscale complex fluids. Journal of Rheology, 58(6), pp.1751-1788.
DOI: 10.1122/1.4892114 - Holten-Andersen, N., Jaishankar, A., Harrington, M.J., Fullenkamp, D.E., DiMarco, G., He, L., McKinley, G.H., Messersmith, P.B. and Lee, K.Y.C., 2014. Metal-coordination: using one of nature's tricks to control soft material mechanics. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2(17), pp.2467-2472.
DOI: 10.1039/C3TB21374A - Jaishankar, A. and McKinley, G.H., 2013. Power-law rheology in the bulk and at the interface: quasi-properties and fractional constitutive equations. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469(2149), p.20120284.
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2012.0284 - Jaishankar, A., Sharma, V. and McKinley, G.H., 2011. Interfacial viscoelasticity, yielding and creep ringing of globular protein–surfactant mixtures. Soft Matter, 7(17), pp.7623-7634.
DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05399J