Ankit Desai, PhD

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India17 yrs 9 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Over 15 years of experience in data science.
Ph.D. in Computer Science with multiple publications.
Expert in architecting data science projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI expert in EdTech and related domains.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceAi TechnologiesLeadershipTeam Management

Other Skills

AgentsAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsApache SparkArchitectural DesignArtificial Intelligence (AI)BERTBig DataBusiness Intelligence (BI)CC (Programming Language)C++Computer ScienceData Analysis

About

I am a Chief Data Product Officer at Genuin Inc. I have worked in the startups of domains like EdTech, AdTech, and Logistics industries. I have over 15 years of experience in applying data science, machine learning, and deep learning to solve complex problems and create innovative solutions across various domains. My core competencies include architecting and leading data science projects from scratch to production, product-driven data science, team building and people management, data analytics, mentoring, research and development, and stakeholder management. I also have a strong academic background, with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ahmedabad University and multiple publications in international conferences and journals. I am passionate about exploring new areas of research and development, such as generative AI, graph mining, and mining massive data sets. My mission is to leverage my expertise and skills to build an AI-based app platforms that empowers users and delivers value to our clients and partners.

Experience

Genuin

Chief Data Product Officer

Apr 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · On-site

1. Spearheaded the successful launch of core video features, including Feed Personalization and Search functionality, ensuring high-quality, user-facing deliverables.
2. Implemented critical pipelines to streamline operations and boost system efficiency, such as the Video De-duplication, Video Ingestion Pipeline, and NER-based category creation.
3. Integrated cutting-edge AI technologies to enrich the video experience, including AI thumbnail generation, text-to-video, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and video transcription.
4. Introduced features to significantly boost user engagement, such as AI-driven question generation and the facilitation of iterative conversations.
5. Leveraged data scraping techniques to gather valuable insights from video content, news, and trends, enabling data-driven product decisions.
6. Played a pivotal role in hiring and team building, cultivating a strong and skilled workforce. Managed stakeholders effectively and implemented best practices to optimize project delivery and overall operations.

PresentationsArchitectural DesignStrategyDiagram DesignData ScienceAI Technologies

Locus

Director Data Science

Jul 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

We are building The World's Best Dispatch Management Platform in Final Mile

PresentationsStatistical Data AnalysisStatistical ModelingArchitectural DesignLeadershipAnalytical Skills+5

Embibe

4 roles

Principal Data Scientist

Promoted

Nov 2020 – Jul 2021 · 8 mos

Leading the applied data science.
Managing a team of Lead and Sr Data scientists
Build the product algorithms with respect to user profiling and leaning outcomes which helps students improve by using the world’s most powerful learning platform ever invented
Product Data Analytics Architecture with feedback loop
Converting the business problem into Algorithms or Data Science Problem and solving it.
Product lead Data Science

PresentationsArchitectural DesignLeadershipManagementData ScienceTeam Management+2

Associate Principal Data Scientist

Apr 2020 – Nov 2020 · 7 mos

Knowledge Graphs, Smart Meta Tagging
Statistical Models for unsupervised meta tagging
Learning outcomes Framework

LeadershipData ScienceTeam Management

Senior Data Scientist

Promoted

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos

Knowledge Graph and Smart Meta Tagging
Multi-model hierarchical Boosting for Smart Meta Tagging

LeadershipData Science

Data Scientist

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

Leading a Knowledge Graph team. Key roles include Architecture design, and automation of Knowledge Graph development using ML, data engineering.
Tools and Technologies used:
NLP
deep-learning
neo4j
mongodb
python
agile development process
NLTK
sklearn
data pipelines
data visualization
gsheets scripting
ontology
graph-algorithms

Data Science

Upgrad.com

Thesis supervisor

Nov 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr · Mumbai

Data Science

Iqm corporation

2 roles

Data Scientist

Nov 2017 – Jun 2018 · 7 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Responsible for handling volume, variety, velocity of data. Bringing meaningful insights from data. Architect the big data storage and retrieval using ML to drive the data driven political intelligence platform.
Using:
1. Spark (python, java)
2. Hadoop
3. MapD
4. TensorFlow
5. Keras
6. SparkMLlib

Data Science

Data Engineer/Data Scientist

Nov 2016 – Oct 2017 · 11 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Working as a Data engineer/scientist at IQM Co. Ahmedabad. Responsible for processing data and generating Analytics out of it. Machine Learning, Hadoop and Spark. Using Cutting Edge Technology to process PB of data using Spark, Spark Streaming, SparkML, Visualization of Stats using graphite grafana, Netty etc.

Data Science

Bits edu campus: babaria institute

Assistant Professor

Jun 2015 – Oct 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Vadodara Area, India

Teaching Learning.
Courses taught Java (j2se and j2ee), Machine Learning, Soft Computing, Cyber Security.

Data Science

Silver oak college of engg., & tech., ahmedabad 077

Assistant Professor and Head

Dec 2013 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Ahmedabad

An Assistant Professor and Head in Department of Computer Engineering, Silver Oak College of Engineering & Technology, Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad.
Courses taught Algorithms, Object Oriented Technologies and Programming.

Data Science