Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dubai, United Arab Emirates · On-site

• Leading Innovation Transformation effort for multi-billion dollar business across Finance, HR, Marketing, Leasing, Legal using Cloud based tools, Oracle Fusion/EPM, RPA/IPA, Merchandising automation and optimizing store operations using Gen AI & Automation
• Productivity and Sales Improvements across multiple areas
• Latency improvements and Cost reduction
• Leading Design, Development and Deployment of in-house merchandizing tools (on AWS) including AI driven: Auto Replenishment, Auto Allocation, Assortment Planning & Optimization and Pricing Optimizations for all fashion and accessories brands in the Group
• Leading Generative AI based product development and deployments for Hiring Acceleration, Chatbots, Fashion Design, Marketing creatives and Legal
• Video Analytics and Intelligent Tag Analytics for optimizing in-store inventory placement, customer-staff interaction, compliance checks, sales staff optimizations, heat map analytics, offline sales funnel analytics including trials

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Jun 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Leading innovative applications of Generative AI and Tech for EdTech vertical

Nov 2020 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Leading AI/ML innovations for 3D Rush Avatar and Rush Gaming Universe, and innovative applications of Generative AI across organization wide use-cases

Jul 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Leading AI innovations and Data engg in NLP, Computer Vision, Speech and more to deliver high impact products and establish AI leadership in India.
• Around 25 patents filed in social, virtual worlds and related AI areas including computer vision, nlu and reinforcement learning.
• Around 10 publications in top AI conferences including CVPR 2020 and Interspeech 2021
• Presentations at conferences: Quantum AI at Cypher 2019, Reinforcement Learning at ODSC 2020, AI driven innovations at Hike at Oreilly Tensorflow World, Santa Clara, 2019 and multiple others
• Deep learning driven personalized text and sticker recommendation in Hike messenger. Innovations at model and server+device level for latency and throughput optimizations. AAAI 2020 application deployment award.
• Computer vision models for visual personalization and full body + facial expression animation generation for 2D and 3D Hikemoji avatars
• Automated generation of mesh and texture for scalable accessories including male and female outfits.
• Generative adversarial models for few shot audio to video generation. Published in CVPR 2020.
• Normalization framework for few shot speech style transfer. Published in Interspeech 2021.
• Voice command driven data query and viz tool

Jun 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram

• Led AI technology and product innovations with full stack end to end design and development on Cloud over terabytes of transactional and clickstream data, using AI/ML algos, PySpark, Java, Javascript, MySQL,/mongodb/ElasticSearch/Solr for Linux/Android/IOS in various areas: Dynamic discounting optimization framework for B2C & B2B using predictive/prescriptive analytics/RL, Inventory recommendation, Auto bidding for online marketing, Virtual assistant and augmented reality using NLP/DL/RL, Auto content generation, Web personalization and contextual recommendation

Nov 2016 – Jun 2017 · 7 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Leading innovations in Pricing and Revenue Management using Machine Learning, Optimization, Game Theory & AI. Driving state-of-the-art technology full stack for SaaS product on AWS using MongoDb, Node + Angular JS, Spark and Talend/MySQL. Engagements in multiple verticals including TV, Print, Hospitality, FMCG.

Dec 2014 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Led innovations in Data Science & Machine Learning with end to end design and development for multiple areas in Telecom including Real-time voice and data fraud for terabytes of CDR data, Campaign recommendation, Travel prediction, Security and travel applications using PySpark, GraphX, HBase/MySQL, Hadoop/Pig, R, Parquet

Mar 2007 – Dec 2014 · 7 yrs 9 mos · New Delhi

• Research Leader for High Performance Analytics group
• Research Leader for Natural Resources - Oil/Gas Industry
• Parallel Algorithm Design and Optimization for Large Scale Clusters, Supercomputers such as Blue Gene/P, GPU based Hybrid architectures: Graph / Combinatorial Algorithms.
• Distributed Online Scheduling Algorithm Design & Development on Supercomputers. Distributed Machine Learning based Scheduling of Dynamic Irregular Computations.
• Hadoop optimization for multi-core architectures
• Machine Learning & Data Mining for Telecom, Computational Biology (genome sequence alignment) and Geosciences: Video Caching Optimizations, Collaborative Filtering, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Well Log Analytics/Integrity
• Parallel Geophysics Kernels design & optimization: Seismic Imaging, Full Waveform Inversion, XFEM, computational fluid dynamics on BGP, BGQ, GPU Clusters
• Physical Modeling & Optimization: Full Waveform Inversion and Joint Inversion/History Matching, Fracture modeling using XFEM

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · Noida, UP, India

• Senior Management Role
• Formal model checking algorithms design and development in C/C++

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs · Noida Area, India

• Senior Management role
• Routing algorithm design and development in C/C++ for hardware emulation environment

Mar 1997 – Mar 2003 · 6 yrs · Menlo Park, CA, USA · On-site

• Research and Delivery Lead role (in Sun Research Labs, Menlo Park, CA, USA) for backend of parallelyzing compiler including partitioning, routing and scheduling algorithms, with target architecture as a many-core cluster. 100K lines of C++ Code written, debugged and tuned for performance.
• Multiple patents on emulation and backend compilation and linking
• Top-level area routing algorithm design and development (20K lines of C++/Perl code) for UltraSparc microprocessor.
• Floorplanning and top-level timing analysis flow for UltraSparc microprocessor.

Jan 1994 – Jan 1995 · 1 yr · Santa Clara, CA, USA

• Design and development of Object Oriented Models, Algorithms and Data Structures for efficient computations in Verilog to Vital conversion