Anant Agarwal

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led award-winning AI projects at Nissan.
Recognized as Faculty of the Year at Jio Institute.
Two-time 99.8%iler in CAT.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI expert in the Automotive industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

GenaiMlopsGenerative AiData ScienceMachine LearningAi

Other Skills

LLMOpsTechnical TrainingTime Series AnalysisForecastingPythonRSQLData VisualizationTensorFlowApache SparkPandasDeep LearningSoftware Project ManagementProduct Development

About

Anant specializes in Applied GenAI at TrueFoundry, a leading cloud-native PaaS company that provides an industry-leading enterprise AI Gateway for GenAI, as well as a robust enterprise LLMOps and MLOps platform for enabling AI teams to train and deploy models at the speed of Big Tech. He has rich tech leadership experience driving impact from AI/ML at Nissan, by solving critical business problems with ML, Forecasting, GenAI among other domains. Anant has judged the Altair’s Global Enlighten Award in Responsible AI category thrice, and been featured in its Spotify podcast on data democratization. He's a Visiting Faculty Member at the full-time PGP in AI and Data Science program at Reliance's Jio Institute, where he was awarded Faculty of the Year award. He has given workshops on multiple platforms such as Analytics Vidhya, Zhejiang University among others, and upskilled professionals in Data Science through his Masterclasses across the world. An alumnus of The Doon School and IIT Kharagpur, Anant holds a Master’s degree from University of Minnesota Twin Cities and an MBA degree from the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad where he was awarded the Dean’s and Merit List awards. He is also a 2-time 99.8%iler in CAT, a national-level squash player as well as a fingerstyle guitarist certified by Trinity College London. Website: https://www.anantagarwal.in

Experience

Truefoundry

Principal Applied Scientist - GenAI

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos

Thought leadership on production-grade GenAI best practices, acting as SME from Agentic AI and MCP development to highly observable, reliable and secure deployments
Driving technical adoption in the leading LLMOps/MLOps PaaS space for enterprise clients, by designing and delivering technical trainings focussed on TrueFoundry's leading AI Gateway

GenAIMLOpsLLMOpsTechnical Training

Jio institute

Visiting Faculty Member

May 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Taught credit-based courses in Generative AI and Time Series Analysis across two full-time cohorts of the PGP in AI and Data Science program, and awarded Faculty of the Year for excellence in teaching

Generative AITime Series AnalysisData Science

Nissan motor corporation

3 roles

Data Science Manager

Jun 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Led 3 CDIO 2024 award-winning projects as a DS Manager - 1) Contests and incentives planner 2) Sales forecasting for manufacturing 3) Demand forecasting for aftersales parts - demonstrating excellent value outcomes, technology complexity and business adoption
Interfaced as single point of contact with senior executives in North America & Japan across diverse business domains, for driving high-impact core Machine Learning, AI and GenAI projects from initiation to delivery
Managed and mentored a high-performing team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers; recognized with the Best Manager Award for fostering innovation and thought leadership

Machine LearningAIData Science

Sabbatical

Jun 2021 – May 2022 · 11 mos

• Completed the flagship MBA program at the Indian School of Business with Dean's and Merit Lists, strengthening business acumen and strategic leadership capabilities

Lead Data Scientist

Sep 2018 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Spearheaded a fully productionized sales forecasting initiative that was featured as a key AI-based solution in Nissan's strategic plan, and was also awarded the Global CIO Award 2021
Led the end-to-end development of multiple cutting-edge Machine Learning and AI solutions using Python and R, translating complex data into actionable insights
Guided cross-functional project teams through all phases of solution design and implementation

Machine LearningAIPythonR

Lawfty

Data Scientist

Nov 2017 – Jan 2018 · 2 mos

Worked at San Francisco office onsite as part of Lawfty's Technology team in Data Science
Developed a large SQL module for effective querying of digital marketing KPIs at varying granularities

SQL