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Work Experience

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Applied AI

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

February 2025 - Present

I hold the Vice President designation (senior banking band), yet my focus remains hands-on architecture and engineering. Spearheading personalized customer experiences and actionable insights by leveraging Explainable AI, large-scale financial data, and bleeding-edge cloud technologies. ** IC: Individual Contribution 1. [IC] Transaction Search using Embedding and Small Language Models (SLMs): Designed and implemented an intelligent transaction search system capable of handling complex, multi-intent user queries using embeddings and SLMs. 2. [IC] Budget Pacing Optimization: A data-driven, mathematical optimization framework combining machine learning and mathematical optimization to maximize ROAS and maintain balanced campaign spend. 3. [Presenter] Agentic AI Training Initiative (Brown-Bag Series) to the broader-team in JPMC: Deliver weekly 1-hour training sessions (to broader group) focused on hands-on experimentation and conceptual deep-dives in Agentic AI. Initiative reflects continuous learning and leadership in next-gen AI systems. Giving Back to the AI Community: Deliver public talks and invited sessions on Agentic AI as part of community contribution. Have spoken at IIM Ahmedabad, IIIT Hyderabad, and other leading institutions on building reasoning-driven, enterprise-scale AI systems. Skills: Agentic AI ๐Ÿ”น Generative AI ๐Ÿ”น Computer Vision ๐Ÿ”น Large Language Models (LLMs) ๐Ÿ”น NLP ๐Ÿ”น Large Multimodal Models ๐Ÿ”น Team Leadership ๐Ÿ”น Team Management

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Staff Scientist

krutrim.com

February 2024 - January 2025

Multi-modal LLM team: Focus is on product driven research based on Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) and Diffusion Models. Skills: Deep Learning ๐Ÿ”น Generative AI ๐Ÿ”น Computer Vision ๐Ÿ”น Large Language Models (LLMs) ๐Ÿ”น NLP ๐Ÿ”น Large Multimodal Models ๐Ÿ”น Team Leadership ๐Ÿ”น Team Management Published Papers: - Chitranuvad: Adapting Multi-Lingual LLMs for Multimodal Translation (https://aclanthology.org/2024.wmt-1.80.pdf) - Chitrarth: Bridging Vision and Language for a Billion People (https://scholar.google.com/citations? view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=tgz2F38AAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&authuser=1&citation_for_view=tgz2F38AAAAJ:7PzlFSSx8tAC) Contributions: [IC: Individual Contribution, Collaborative: Joint work with team] ๐Ÿ”น Image Moderation System (IC): Developed image moderation system (Data collection & model development, model evaluation), ensuring robust handling of harmful content for vision-language models (VLMs) and diffusion models. ๐Ÿ”น Indic VLM Eval Datasets (Collaborative): Leading initiatives to curate diverse benchmarking datasets that captures linguistic and visual nuances specific to the Indian context for accurate benchmarking of VLMs. ๐Ÿ”น Indic VLM Evaluation Pipelines (IC): Spearheading the creation of an evaluation code pipeline, enabling precise benchmarking of VLMs across various capabilities and skills. ๐Ÿ”น Research Publications (Collaborative): Driven by a passion for advancing research at the intersection of computer vision and large language models, I focus on innovating in multimodal AI, contributing to co-authored publications on Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). ๐Ÿ”น VLM Finetuning (IC): Created a fine-tuning coding pipeline tailored for proprietary OCR datasets.

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AI INstructor

upGrad

February 2023 - January 2024

Taught Data Science and Computer Vision courses to the masters program offered by UpGrad. Skills: ๐Ÿ”น Teaching | ๐Ÿ”น Data Science | ๐Ÿ”น Computer Vision | ๐Ÿ”น Curriculum Development | ๐Ÿ”น Education Technology ๐Ÿ”น Python for Data Science | ๐Ÿ”น Machine Learning | ๐Ÿ”น Academic Mentorship | ๐Ÿ”น Online Learning Platforms | ๐Ÿ”น Instructional Design

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Sr. Manager, Data Science

jioplatformslimitedjpl.com

June 2022 - February 2024

Topic of interest: Video Analytics, Computer Vision Group Skills: Deep Learning ๐Ÿ”น Generative AI ๐Ÿ”น Computer Vision ๐Ÿ”น Large Language Models (LLMs) ๐Ÿ”น NLP ๐Ÿ”น Large Multimodal Models ๐Ÿ”น Team Leadership ๐Ÿ”น Team Management While at JPL, I was engaged in two projects. The first project involved the development of video-based foreground segmentation and background-aware foreground segmentation techniques. The second project focused on context-driven object detection. As a result of these endeavors: Our research manuscript that include innovative architectures for video-based foreground segmentation is available online (URL: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00918.pdf), demonstrating my commitment to advancing the field of computer vision. I created a custom repository utilizing Ultralytics-YoLov8 with PyTorch for the second project, showcasing my proficiency in implementing and enhancing object detection models. I collaborated on object detection influenced by context, and additionally, I worked on Optical-flow prediction using Global Motion Aggregation (GMA).

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Lead Engineer

Qualcomm

September 2021 - May 2022

Skills: Deep Learning ๐Ÿ”ท Computer Vision ๐Ÿ”ท Team Management During my tenure at Qualcomm, I undertook and successfully executed two key projects: I. Developed a Face Detection model tailored for smartphone cameras, adhering to specific criteria: Engineered a compact and quantized deep learning model with low power consumption and latency, specifically optimized for screen-off scenarios. Achieved superior detection performance while minimizing false alarms, particularly on challenging datasets. Implemented a regularization strategy leveraging both face landmarks and face orientations to enhance the stability of the compact model. II. Contributed to the creation of a Gaze simulator aimed at generating a larger dataset with annotations. This initiative was part of the ongoing efforts to develop a compact Gaze detection system. Throughout these projects, the environment utilized was PyTorch. PyTorch, Python (Programming Language) and +6 skills

Education

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Indian Institute of Science

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mathematical Optimization, and Computational Imaging

2015 - 2021

Best PhD Thesis Award & Gold Medal(Prof. D J Badkas Medal) TensorFlow, Statistical Modeling and +4 skills

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Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

M.Tech, Signal Processing

2007 - 2009

Grade: 8.54/10