Sagar Kurandwad

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Markham, Ontario, Canada4 yrs 4 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of experience in AI research and development.
  • Led design of LLM-powered AI agents for various industries.
  • Received Outstanding Paper Award for wind power integration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI research and development with expertise in Generative AI and Reinforcement Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Reinforcement LearningGenerative AiNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

Academic PublishingAlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalysisAnalyticsApache HadoopApache SparkArtificial IntelligenceC++CUDAComputer VisionData AnalysisData ScienceDatabasesDatamining

About

With over a decade of experience in AI research and development, I have a strong background in Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Deep Reinforcement Learning. My mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in AI and solve challenging and impactful problems using cutting-edge AI techniques and technologies. I have led teams, owned ML roadmaps, and designed and shipped tailored AI solutions to clients across various domains, such as defence, aviation, energy, emergency response, and media. Additionally, I have taught and spoken on AI topics and applications at various educational and professional venues. I hold an MS in AI from The University of Edinburgh and have multiple patents and publications to my name. I also received the Outstanding Paper Award 2014 for my work on wind power integration.

Experience

Spicychat.ai

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Oct 2023Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Remote

Ai redefined (air)

Researcher and Developer

Nov 2019Sep 2023 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Collaborate with clients and prospective clients to design and deliver tailored AI solutions.
  • Deliver talks on Reinforcement Learning With Human Feedback (RLHF) and the company’s offerings at conferences.
  • Provide strategic and technical direction to ML projects and own the ML roadmap.
  • Uphold and refine best development practices.
  • Led the design and development of LLM-powered and RLHF-based agents such as Air Traffic Controllers, Battery Management Agents, Fighter Pilot Assistants, Emergency Response Agents, and Forest Fire Detection Agents.
  • Built CogmentVerse, a research platform for Human-in-the-loop learning (HILL) and multi-agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL). https://github.com/cogment/cogment-verse
  • Integrated Reinforcement Learning algorithms, Deep Learning models, Environments and Technologies into the company's offerings.
  • Designed and deployed a variety of innovations such as dimensionality-aware attention in transformers, energy-based parameter-initialization of deep learning models, and modularized training of large neural networks.
Large Language Models (LLM)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Reinforcement LearningPyTorchTeam ManagementGenerative AI+12

Brainstation

Lead Instructor

Sep 2019Oct 2019 · 1 mo · Toronto, Canada Area

  • Instructor for machine learning and data analytics courses, which cover a variety of topics such as Python, SQL, Tableau, data preparation, data visualization, operationalisation, machine learning, deep learning, and their applications in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Recommender Systems.
Named Entity Recognition (NER)Natural Language Processing

Dailyhunt (versé innovation pvt ltd)

Lead Researcher & Consultant

Nov 2016Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Topic modelling through Variational Mixture of vMF, Spherical X-means, and LDA
  • Distributed representation of news articles using Doc2Vec, fastText and Transformer Networks
  • Document classification with Graph Convolutional Networks
  • Celebrity face generation via Variational Autoencoders and GANs
  • Semantic embeddings of photo galleries and news images using ResNet-DocVec
Team ManagementGenerative AIDesign PatternsNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Strategic ThinkingMentoring+1

Personagraph

Data Scientist

Jan 2016Sep 2016 · 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Classification of digital content consumed by end-users using ResNet and LSTM Networks
  • User clustering through Variational Mixture of Gaussians
  • Temporal modeling of the users’ buying patterns with ARIMA
Named Entity Recognition (NER)

Housing.com

Data Scientist

Aug 2015Nov 2015 · 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Search result design and property recommendations using Probabilistic Graphical Models
  • User conversion prediction through CNN-LSTM on real-estate images

Birds eye systems private limited

Data Scientist

May 2014Aug 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Traffic speed prediction through Bayesian Basis Function Regression
  • Location and event detection from social media posts and news articles using Probabilistic Models
Team ManagementDesign PatternsNamed Entity Recognition (NER)Strategic ThinkingMentoringTechnology Leadership

Tata consultancy services

Researcher-Machine Learning

Feb 2012Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Wind speed prediction over a horizon of three days using an ensemble of Neural Networks
  • Optimization of bid strategy in wind energy markets through Dynamic Programming
  • Outlier detection for energy consumption patterns at the onshore wind power plants via Probabilistic Graphical Models
Academic Publishing

Education

The University of Edinburgh

Master of Science (MS) — Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2010Jan 2011

B.V.B CET

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2009

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