Soumalya Seal

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 3 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Built AI-powered Chatbot for travel planning.
  • Increased engagement of beauty products from 3% to 10%.
  • Mentored teams to enhance audience targeting capabilities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI and Machine Learning for E-commerce and Travel industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceGenerative AiMachine Learning

Other Skills

AnacondaAnalytical SkillsAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksAttention to DetailBig Data AnalyticsData AnalysisData ModelingData VisualizationDeep LearningEmbraces ChangeHadoopHiveKeras

About

Building end-to-end products leveraging SOTA ML algorithms, from product conceptualisation to deployment: - Built multi-lingual Audience Targeted advertisement products in Microsoft Advertisement Network (Bing Ads) - Built beauty and personal care recommendations and outfit completion at Myntra - Building GenAI based travel Chatbot in Cleartrip Focused on building generalised and extensible solutions: - Common UI toolbox for MRI applications for Samsung - Multilingual multi-label multi-class classifier for ads and search queries for Microsoft ads - Universal product and user representations in Myntra - Personalised recommendations platform for Myntra - Framework for building GenAI intelligent agents in Cleartrip

Experience

Inmobi

Applied Scientist 3

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Flipkart

Data Scientist 3

Jan 2025Nov 2025 · 10 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

  • Automated QC for catalog
Generative AIData SciencePython (Programming Language)Prompt Engineering

Cleartrip

Data Scientist 3

Sep 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Built Trippy (AI-powered Chatbot for trip planning)
  • Hotel's Ranking
Generative AI

Myntra

Senior Data Scientist

May 2022Aug 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Skin Care and Hair Care personalised recommendations : launched V0 DS solution that increased use engagement of beauty products from 3% to 10% in 4 months
  • Generalised personalised recommendation framework : designed to eliminate additional DS and DSE effort for custom product racks
  • AI Stylist, a salient feature for Fashion E-commerce: Increased coverage to 90%+ of live styles and products bought in last 2 years with average coherence of 3.5 (out of 5). Project was highlighted in media by company’s PR team and was monitored at CXO level
  • Designed for data collection to train AI Stylist V1 model, with collaboration with DSE
  • Generated salient samples for validation and curation to augment AI Stylist training data
  • Product embedding: Fine-tuned RoBERTA to generate universal product embeddings that are used in all new recommendations projects
  • Myntra Studio and Myntra minis - Trained DL model for recommendations, increasing both CTR (by 20%) and coverage (to 90%+) on product display pages
  • Shop from banner : Hackathon project
  • Collaborated extensively with Data Science Engineering, ML Platform, Analytics, Product Management as well as Engineering teams to plan, execute and deploy multiple projects end-to-end
HadoopMapReduceMathematicsLogistic RegressionMachine LearningPattern Recognition+19

Microsoft

2 roles

Data and Applied Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2019Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 3 mos · On-site

  • As first hire of international Audience Targeting team, mentored and familiarised later hires with project-specific trainings
  • Increased coverage of Audience Targeting product from ~ 50-100 segments in only 3 English markets, to 350+ segments across 80+ countries and 17+ languages, with minimum of 10% CVR again and positive CTR gain and impressions share
  • Worked extensively with US counterparts for bidirectional technology transfer as well as joint experimentations
  • Mentored intern in very first year to create a sanity check module that monitored daily pipelines and effectively eliminated production bugs
  • Mentored interns to create multilingual multilevel classifier, leveraging XLM-R and Unicoder, covering 17+ languages and had accuracy of 80%+
  • Explored creation of seasonality based segments and repeat-buy segments
  • Expanded Similar Audience product to non-English 50+ markets covering 20+ languages
  • Expanded Travel and Seasonal segments to 4 international markets, covering 3 languages (English, French, German)
  • Worked with multiple algorithms - LR, XGBoost, CNN and LSTM with simple attention, Hierarchical graph networks with graph networks, Locality based Hashing, K-Means clustering
  • Worked extensively on data preparation modules in SCOPE (U-SQL) on CosmosDB
MathematicsLogistic RegressionMachine LearningPattern RecognitionData VisualizationPredictive Modeling+20

Data and Applied Scientist

Jul 2018Jan 2019 · 6 mos · On-site

  • User intent modeling using Bing search queries and user activity analysis on various Microsoft online properties for targeted ads on Microsoft Universal Storefront
  • As first data science practitioner of Business Applications Group, pioneered use of ML and Data Science
MathematicsLogistic RegressionPattern RecognitionPredictive ModelingPyTorchAnalytics+8

Samsung research & development institute bangalore

Software Engineer

Jul 2015Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Health and Medical Equipment/Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Assisted on the Heart and MR Spectroscopy before getting responsibility for two Perfusion MRI modules. On the way, picked up on Qt, MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture and Cuda as required for the job. Towards the end, helped begin an effort to establish a common UI platform for cross-model uniformity.
MathematicsLogistic RegressionPattern RecognitionPredictive ModelingPyTorchAnalytics+8

Memoir systems

Software Development Intern

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

  • VLSI algorithm designs for partitioning and floorplanning. Developed JAVA library for graph and hypergraph algorithms.
Problem SolvingAnalytical Skills

Education

Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Master of Technology (MTech) — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Jadavpur University

BTech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

St. Paul's mission school

ISC — Biological and Physical Sciences

Jan 1997Jan 2011

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