o Engineering lead for MLOps initiative which impacts scientific stakeholders across Genentech's Research & Early Development (gRED) organizationo Cross functional leadership for collaboration with Infrastructure & Architecture group

o Engineering manager leading a geographically distributed team of research scientists & engineers in 3M's Informatics groupo Guided team through development of modeling capabilities which were used to address a major strategic change for the business [https://news.3m.com/2022-12-20-3M-to-Exit-PFAS-Manufacturing-by-the-End-of-2025]o Fostered a culture of innovation, learning and collaboration by leading the organization of 3M Hackathon 2023 which saw more than 300 technical employees participate

o Engineering manager leading a geographically distributed team of engineers in 3M’s software and data platforms groupo Led the team through a major re-organization with strategic hiring and balanced portfolio managemento Proactively approached staff development and performance management leading to promotions (40% of team within 1 year) and recognitiono Chief product owner for 3M Hackathon 2022 which saw more than 600 technical employees participate

** Materials Informatics **o Tech Lead for development of end-to-end data analytics web application correlating material compositions and experimental data which will be the one-stop for any materials developer in the research organizationo Pilot material developed using above data analytics application to be launched in Q1-2022o Responsible for choosing & maintaining the technology stack which includes AWS cloud services for infrastructure, Docker for a multi-service architecture, Drone for CI/CD, libraries like sklearn and pytorch for machine learning & FastAPI for API layer** Inventory Management and Waste Reduction **o Tech Lead for data science web application (hosted in AWS) to optimize industrial business group’s inventoryo Expected annual savings of $4 million due to optimized inventory** Improved situational awareness for firefighters **o Data Science lead on cross functional team of data scientist, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and user experience researcher. Responsible for development of sensor fusion algorithms combining multiple modalities like cameras, radars, etc. Technology showcased to senior leadership including 3M CEO and business group EVP2019 Circle of Technical Excellence & Innovation (CTE&I) Award winner2020 Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) winner5 granted patents, 4 patent filings, 6 Invention Submissions

** Noncontact Fingerprint Scanner **o Computer vision lead for first-to-the-world fingerprint detection and extraction approach on a noncontact device which met the Pixels Per Inch (PPI) requirement for both FBI Appendix F and FBI PIV standards. Technology showcased to 3M Board of Directorso Successful completion of $850m Gemalto divestiture contract requirements including- prototype non-contact fingerprint devices with testing procedures, results, algorithm code, and design recommendations, delivered to transition team by contract deadline** Improved wearer conspicuity **o Computer vision algorithm lead responsible for 3M article detection algorithm development, dataset collection & curation, image pre-processing pipeline and hardware calibration o Successfully demoed live detection in a construction zone on a freeway at a very high distance from the vehicle to the Michigan Department of Transportationo Whitepaper at ITS World Congress 2017 in Montreal, Canada2019 Non-tenured Faculty Award (NTFA) winner11 patent filings, 42 Invention Submissions

Ph.D. student, served as research assistant on various projects: Finder geo-location, introspective semantic segmentation, non-parametric semantic parsing, content-based image retrieval, scene categorization and facilitating scene understanding of urban environments through tasks like topological mapping, associating meta data like intersections with geographic locations and improving location recognition.

Multi-university collaborative project on recognizing actions and objects in PBS craft shows using cues from text and video.