An experienced lead scientist with over 16+ years of experience in AI/ML most recently working on voice assistants and agents. I specialize in structured problem solving, strategy, ML/AI with a specific focus on NLP and mining insights and prediction from unstructured data like text and audio. My areas of expertise include computational advertising, search relevance and information retrieval, speech recognition(ASR), voice assistants, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), behavioral science, large language models and NLP. I have mentored & lead software engineers & scientists, to drive adoption of cutting edge deep learning mdoels and solutions in organizations big and small with a unique story-telling style through metrics, data and visuals. I have advised early stage startups in advertising and healthcare. I have worked as management consultant in the early part of my career before moving to product and consumer internet technology companies that are data-rich in domains as diverse as advertising, retail and ecommerce.Tech Stack - Large Language Models(LLM), NLP , IR, Python, Bash, D3.js, SAS, R, SQL, Spark, Hadoop, Langchain, CrewAI, AWS Sagemaker, Databricks.Patents & Publications - 5 Patents | 8 PublicationsAdvised early-stage startups in Advertising and Healthcare
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