# Ishan Amlekar

> Ishan Amlekar is a San Francisco-based founding machine learning engineer at Scribe and a co-author of ScribeAgent, research on specialized web agents trained with production-scale workflow data. His path runs from school programming leadership and hackathon projects through machine learning, data science, simulation, patents, and a University of Waterloo software engineering degree with a human-computer interaction specialization.

- **Role:** Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Scribe
- **Organizations:** Scribe, Nuro, Qualcomm, Syngli Inc., Intact, Kinaxis, University of Waterloo, Network of Digital Enthusiasts
- **Education:** Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction specialization, University of Waterloo, Computer science, physics, chemistry and mathematics, Delhi Public School Gurgaon, Sector 45
- **Known for:** Co-authored ScribeAgent, trained with workflow data from more than 250 domains comprising 6 billion tokens., ScribeAgent reported state-of-the-art direct-generation performance on Mind2Web and a 7.3 percentage-point task-success improvement over the previous best text-only web agents on WebArena., Named as an inventor on three U.S. grants and related international filings for interactive machine learning assigned to Kinaxis.

## Career timeline

- **2015-2017** — Led motion graphics, then programming and robotics, for the Network of Digital Enthusiasts.
- **2017-2018** — Served as president of the Network of Digital Enthusiasts, a school computer club with more than 500 members.
- **2018-2023** — Studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo, specializing in human-computer interaction.
- **2019** — Worked as a machine learning developer at Kinaxis and joined the inventor group behind interactive machine-learning patent filings.
- **2020** — Completed data science and software development roles at Intact and Syngli Inc.
- **2021** — Co-founded a stealth startup, then worked as a software engineer at Qualcomm.
- **2022** — Worked on behaviour simulation as a software engineer at Nuro.
- **2023** — Joined Scribe as a founding machine learning engineer.
- **2024** — Co-authored the first ScribeAgent preprint and saw three U.S. interactive machine-learning patents from the Kinaxis work granted in November.
- **2025** — ScribeAgent appeared at the ICLR Foundation Models in the Wild workshop and in Transactions on Machine Learning Research; another interactive-ML patent was granted in March.

## Achievements

- Co-authored ScribeAgent, trained with workflow data from more than 250 domains comprising 6 billion tokens.
- ScribeAgent reported state-of-the-art direct-generation performance on Mind2Web and a 7.3 percentage-point task-success improvement over the previous best text-only web agents on WebArena.
- Named as an inventor on three U.S. grants and related international filings for interactive machine learning assigned to Kinaxis.
- Earned a President's Scholarship with Distinction at the University of Waterloo.
- Placed fourth among 10,880 participants in the 2017 Decryptonite national cryptic hunt.
- Ranked first at school, fourth in the zone and 43rd internationally in the 2017-18 National Cyber Olympiad.
- Led a school computer club of more than 500 members and helped organize events for 300-plus participants from more than 16 schools.
- Built four public hackathon projects on Devpost, all listed as winners on his portfolio.

## Latest updates

- **2025-06** — ScribeAgent was published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research.
- **2025-04** — ScribeAgent appeared at the ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild.
- **2025-03** — U.S. Patent 12,242,954 for interactive machine learning, listing Amlekar as a co-inventor, was granted.
- **2024-11** — The first ScribeAgent preprint was submitted, and two related interactive machine-learning U.S. patents were granted.

## Links

- Website: https://scribehow.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishanamlekar
- GitHub: https://github.com/GodofDragons

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Last updated: 2026-09-27