Mahashweta Das

Director of Engineering

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of AI/GenAI/ML leadership experience.
  • Proven track record in building high-performing R&D teams.
  • Expertise in driving technical breakthroughs into commercial products.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech leader specializing in AI/GenAI technologies.

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Skills

Other Skills

generative modelfoundation modellarge language modeldeep learningrepresentation learninggraph learningscalable machine learning

About

* AI/GenAI/ML leader with over 10 years of progressive industry experience and over 4 years of experience leading high-performing teams of PhD AI scientists and engineers. * Proven track record in building R&D team, driving technical breakthroughs into commercially viable products, fostering a culture of innovation, facilitating global cross-collaboration, working with the C-suite team, steering organization's AI/GenAI research roadmap, executing strategies with measurable impact, and building successful product partnerships. * Keywords: generative model, foundation model, large language model, deep learning, representation learning, graph learning, and scalable machine learning

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
5 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Director, Applied Science

Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

  • Global Last Mile Delivery Routing Intelligence

Visa

4 roles

Senior Director, Head of AI/GenAI Research (L8)

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Define AI/GenAI research roadmap, provide thought leadership, and build product partnerships for AI at Visa (reporting to CTO).
  • Lead a group of AI researchers and engineers focused on conducting foundational research, creating new products/early prototypes that incorporate research breakthroughs, and delivering innovative technologies to Visa's strategic products and businesses.

Director

Promoted

Apr 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Defined strategy, steered research directions, and managed academic engagements for Visa Research in the areas of AI, Cryptography, Security, and Blockchain (reporting to SVP).
  • Worked with stakeholders in legal, finance, strategy, branding, and corporate communications to set up academic engagement process between university and Visa Research; grew active academic collaborations with universities by 300% in one year!

Senior Staff Research Scientist / Tech Lead

Promoted

Dec 2018 – Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Recommendation
  • Scalable Graph Representation Learning
  • Synthetic Data Generation
  • Real-Time Payments Solution

Senior Research Scientist

Dec 2016 – Nov 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Graph Representation Learning
  • Cross-Border Transaction Analytics
  • Merchant Analytics
  • Fraud Detection

Northeastern university

Lecturer

Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Silicon Valley, California, United States

Hewlett packard labs

Research Scientist

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, California

  • Data Analytics Group

Yahoo! research

Summer Research Intern

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo · Barcelona, Spain

  • Web Mining Group

Technicolor

Summer Research Intern

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Palo Alto, California

  • Recommendation Group

The university of texas at arlington

Graduate Research Assistant, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · Arlington, Texas Area

Ibm research

Summer Research Intern

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Bangalore, India

  • Information Management Group

The ohio state university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr · Columbus, Ohio Area

Indian institute of science

Summer Research Fellow

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · Bangalore, India

  • Database Systems Group

Indian statistical institute

Research Assistant

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Kolkata, India

  • Machine Intelligence Unit

Education

The University of Texas at Arlington

PhD — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013

The Ohio State University

MS — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

Jadavpur University

BE — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

South Point School

Jan 1988 – Jan 2003

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