Ragoth Sundararajan — AI Researcher

Professional Summary I am an accomplished Senior AI Leader with a combined academic (6 years) and industry (17+) work experience of 20+ years. I am open to Senior/Leadership level roles (contract or full time) of any type where I can add significant value. What I bring to the table is the following: In the Industry, I have worked in two domains, primarily - Model Based Systems Engineering (7 years, till 2014) and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (10+ years; from 2015, till present). In my MBSE work, I have been a Tech Lead, Tech Manager and Business Development Manager and executed Engineering Services projects with Top Global and Indian Majors in Automotive and Aerospace/Defense sectors, including Toyota, Denso, Mahindra, TVS, DRDO PSUs. As Business Development Leader, I have won projects worth more than 1 Million USD. In AI and ML, my experience, mostly at leadership level, is wide ranging, spanning Traditional, Predictive AI/ML, Computer Vision, NLP, Generative AI/LLMs and Agentic AI. I have executed roles and responsibilities in the following areas: -Execution and Delivery- Solution Design and Architecture - Practice Leadership- Product Design and Development - Team Building, Training, Mentoring, Coaching - Thought Leadership - Business Enablement, Multiple Client Facing Engagements My AI Technical Experience and Skills include: - AI/ML Frameworks, Models, & Tools: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, spaCy, OpenCV, Hugging Face, LangGraph/LangChain/LangSmith, Scikit-learn, spaCy, YOLO, Multiple LLMs (GPT, Llama, Claude, Gemini) - Generative AI Techniques: RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning, Agentic AI Design, Adversarial Prompting, LLM Red Teaming - Cloud & Deployment: AWS (Lambda, Fargate, EC2/ECS, S3), GCP, Azure, MongoDB, Postgres, FAST API, React UI, Docker - Responsible AI, AI Guardrails, AI Vulnerability and Security I have played critical roles, in different capacities, in solving problems for multiple industry verticals, including Manufacturing, Retail, BFSI, Healthcare, Automotive and Aerospace & Defense. In Academia, I have advanced research experience through graduate research work in Indian Institute of Science (MS by Research), Bangalore and Uppsala University (PhD in Atmospheric Modeling), Sweden. My 5 years at MIT, USA, as Climate Researcher, working on Global Climate Models, also saw me co-found a startup and play a critical design role for hurricane risk modeling products.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior AI Leader with expertise in AI/ML across Automotive and Aerospace sectors.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 18 yrs 7 mos