Dr. Amit Sachan

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 5 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Top rated PhD graduate with 17+ years of experience.
Winner of 40 under 40 data scientist award.
Led AI initiatives for major media and corporate platforms.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven Media and Communications with extensive experience in data science.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiArtificial Intelligence

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAnalyticsApache SparkBig DataComputer SecurityComputer VisionData AnalysisData AnalyticsData MiningData StructuresJavaKnowledge GraphsLarge Language Models (LLM)LeadershipLinux

About

Heading AI for Media, News and Corporate Communications functionality in Jio. Top rated PhD graduate from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore with experience in research organizations in India and abroad. Winner of 40 under 40 data scientist award and 3AI Industry Leader Award. Overall, 17+ years (including work done during PhD) of experience in different dimensions of data mining, machine learning, text mining and data analytics. Applied these techniques in different domains such as security, web fraud detection, credit card fraud detection, digital rights violation detection, question answering system, recommendations (Movies, News, Live TV, Jobs, Retail, etc.).

Experience

Jio

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Visionary AI leader, currently heading AI initiatives across Media, News, and Corporate Communications divisions at Reliance, leading cross-functional teams of 20+ members to develop and deploy large-scale Generative AI systems.
Driving product innovation by conceptualizing and researching new AI-powered features and experiences for diverse consumer and enterprise apps.
Defining and executing a long-term vision and strategic roadmap for AI teams, aligned with organizational goals and evolving technology trends.
Driving engineering excellence by establishing best practices, fostering a culture of collaboration, and enabling knowledge-sharing across departments.
Leading integration and adoption of cutting-edge technologies, with a focus on Generative AI, recommendation engines, NLP and scalable ML infrastructure.

Generative AILarge Language Models (LLM)Recommender SystemsNatural Language ProcessingLeadershipArtificial Intelligence+1

Assistant Vice President

Jul 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Started AI/ML practice from scratch for JioMedia platform (JioCinema, JioNews, JioTV+, JioTV).
Built AI/ML platform and team to power recommendations, personalization and NLP driven products.
Significantly improved business metrics for multiple applications over the years.
Worked on research and patents on Media and News.

Hotstar

Head of Machine Learning

Sep 2016 – Jul 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Started AI/ML practice and built AI/ML team from scratch
Worked on Advertisements (targeting related) and Personalization products.
Ads Targeting: Demographic targeting, Interest based targeting, Lookalike modeling
Solved some of the most impactful business problems and helped in generating a significant revenue with AI/ML systems.

Info edge india ltd

Data Science Lead

Jul 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 2 mos · noida

Leading recommendations, job alert and premium.

Samsung electronics

Lead Engineer

Mar 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida Area, India

Institute for infocomm research

Scientist

Sep 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Singapore

Worked on Visa Inc. sponsored project on fraudulent merchants detection and credit card fraud detection. Used NLP, information extraction and machine learning methods.