Sep 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Munich Metropolitan Area

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

• Chief of Technology, Engineering, AI and Product.
• AI Pioneer.
• As Founder and Managing Director:
• Raised equity-based VC round USD 5 million
• Raised (equity-free) USD 1.8 million through public funding and research projects for DRIMCO GmbH
• Leadership, built DRIMCo from 0 to 20+ head counts and DRIM product from scratch
• Created DRIMCO USPs, 15+ Patents in applied AI for requirement intelligence including small language models
• Hands-on Leading the Product, Engineering and AI Research & Development teams
• Augmenting Sales and Customer Engagements in both presales and postsales
• Leading Marketing and Communications for DRIM and DRIMCO
• Leading Product Management and execution, define strategy, business development, product roadmap and communications
• Product, Engineering and R&D:
• Building Small Language Model based Vertical AI Agents for Requirement Intelligence for Industry
• Handson building AI Assistants / Copilots for RFQ / RFP / Tender Requirement analysis in DRIM product (Digital Requirement Interface Management)
• on a mission to build enterprise AI product to digitalize and transform industrial processes especially procurement, quotation and document analysis
• Hands on Technology Stack, Research and Team Leadership (leading 15+ hands-on Tech Experts) in AI-based product strategy, design, development, deployment and modeling complex solutions including AI, Natural Language Processing, Smart Document Layout/Structure Analysis, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Search Engines, Information Extraction, Text Analysis, Computer Vision, UI, UX, backend, databases, etc.
• Technology Ambassador, presales and communications to VC/investors/customers/teams
• Leading AI-NLP research, top-notch publications and representing in scientific community
• The Next Generation Requirements Understanding and Enterprise product, DRIM: Digital Requirement Interface Management

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos

• Senior Key Expert ~ Lead Research Scientist (Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing)
• 15 patents and applications in AI, Deep Learning, Natural Language processing
• 20+ Scientific publications in top tier conferences including ICML, ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL, etc.
• Research and applications in Information Extraction, Textual Representation Learning, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Entity-Relation Extraction, Document Topic Modeling, Probabilistic Modeling
• PhD and Master student supervision
• Scientific publications in ICML, ICLR, AAAI, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, ICASSP, etc.
• Winning benchmarks across scientific community and industry
• EU research-funded projects

Nov 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Patents: 6 granted, 15 filed.
• Primary Supervisor (co-advised with Prof. Hinrich Schuetze) for 2 PhD students in NLP/ML
• Research publications in top tier NLP/AI conferences, e.g., ICML, ICLR, AAAI, NAACL, EMNLP, COLING, ICASSP, etc.
• Winning several AI-NLP shared tasks and scientific community and benchmarks externally.
• Deep Information Extraction [over time].
• Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Deep Learning / Neural Network / Bayesian + Deep Learning / Static and Dynamic Topic Modeling for Natural Language Processing.
• Bootstrapping Natural Language Processing for Information Extraction (Entity/Relation Extraction). Supervised / Semi-supervised / Unsupervised Deep Learning for NLP. Language Evolution.
• Generative modeling, Probabilistic graphical models, neural topic modeling, dynamic neural topic modeling, representation learning
• Lecturing:
• "Representation and Distributional Learning / Deep Learning": https://www.slideshare.net/PankajGupta262/lecture-07-representation-and-distributional-learning-by-pankaj-gupta
• "Recurrent Neural Networks / Deep Learning": https://www.slideshare.net/PankajGupta262/lecture-05-recurrent-neural-networks-deep-learning

Nov 2015 – Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• PhD candidate with a research focus on Computational Linguistics. I am particularly interested in Deep learning methods to challenge natural language processing (NLP) problems.
• Advised by: Prof. Hinrich Schütze and Dr. Bernt Andrassy.
• Industrial Tasks: Industrial Slot Filling, Entity/Concept and Relation Extraction in Industrial domain, Semantic textual similarity learning, Building the state-of-the-art End-to-End Information Extraction system for Knowlege Base Population, Temporal Topic Modeling, Timeline Extraction, Document Layout Analysis, etc.
• + Technical consulation/supervision for NLP/Machine Learning/Deep Learning based projects.

Mar 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Machine Learning, NLP, Deep learning, Information retrieval, slot filling, relation classification, Topic Modeling and document/text classification, Document Processing, Auto-segmentation, lexical chains analysis, Document Layout Analysis.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Munich, Bavaria, Germany · On-site

• Teaching "Deep Learning & Artificial Intelligence" every winter semester at LMU
• Lectures on Deep Learning fundamental, AI Language Models, Representation Learning, Natural Language Processing

Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 · 3 mos · Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Research focused in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Deep Learning.
• Task: Large-scale Relation Extraction in Corporate Entities.

May 2015 – Sep 2015 · 4 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• Research in Domain Adaptation, Transfer learning, Deep learning in Vision and medical domains.
• Winner (Ranked 1st Worldwide) of Machine Learning sub-Challenge : Prostate Cancer DREAM Challenge:
• https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2813558/wiki/235078
• Publication: https://f1000research.com/articles/5-2676/
• Our Methodology, experiments and results:
• https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn3647478/wiki/234331

Dec 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

• C, Data Structures, Algorithms, Programming, Telecom Network Protocols: RRC, RANAP, HNBAP, RUA, Radio Resource Mangement(RRM) algorithms, RNC, NobeB,Femto/HNB, Femto Gateway/HNB-GW, UMTS/3G.

Dec 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr · Gurgaon, India

• C, Data Structures, Algorithms, Programming, SQL, Femto/HNB Gateway, Femto/HNB and CN simulators, qCLI. Protocols understanding: HNBAP, RUA,RANAP.

Jun 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurgaon Haryana

• Working with Mediation Team in Telecom domain as C/Java, Unix Developer. Sound knowledge of C, Data Structures, Algorithms, Programming.
• Interested in Machine Learning, data Mining, AI, Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing,
• Research Paper Publications in IEEE Conference in South Korea:
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsparnumber=5746114
• http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsparnumber=5746115

Jul 2009 – Aug 2009 · 1 mo · Belfast Noethern Ireland UK

• Queen’s India Welcome Scheme (QIWS) scholarship student,
• Sited as Indian Future Research Leader by Queen’s University Belfast UK
• Undergoing Projects
• Auto Text Summarization implementing statistical Natural Language Processing Techniques -
• Supervisor: Prof. Philip Hanna
• Evidence Accumulation Evidence - Knowledge and Data Engineering:
• Supervisor: Prof. David Bell
• Received PhD offer from ECIT department at Queen's University Belfast UK.

Jun 2009 – Jul 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida UP INDIA

• Worked in the department of R&D at Arriys Infosoft Pvt. Ltd. India as Trainee Engineer

Feb 2009 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos · Noida UP India

• Organized the AIEPIC-international Level contest and headed all Campus Ambassadors in UP state colleges

Mar 2004 – Aug 2006 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, India · On-site

• Factory labour peeling off garlic, daily wage labour earning INR 40/day