Srikanta Tirthapura

I am an algorithmic researcher, engineer, and the founder of Elucidate LLC, specializing in the applications of search and generative AI. We partner with enterprises seeking to deploy agentic RAG and deep document search over large knowledge bases, or scale search and recommendations.
Previously, I was a Software Engineering Manager at Apple Search and AI/ML, and the Kingland Professor of Data Analytics at Iowa State University.


Core Capabilities

Enterprise Search & Information Retrieval

Indexing, query understanding, retrieval, and ranking at massive scale.

RAG & Generative AI

Agentic RAG and deep document search integrating large enterprise knowledge bases with generative models.

Algorithms for Big Data

Space-efficient streaming, sampling, and parallel algorithms that enable search, recommendation, and AI systems to scale to massive datasets.


Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Brown University
B.Tech. in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

Profiles

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