Pushpendre Rastogi

CTO

Palo Alto, California, United States19 yrs 6 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in Data Science and Machine Learning.
Best paper award at ACL Workshop on conversational agents.
PhD focused on VAEs for NLP.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI expert with a focus on generative models and machine learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningGenerative Ai Tools

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCVHDLEmbedded SystemsFPGAData StructuresMathematical ModelingMatlabOpenCVLaTeXComputer VisionData AnalysisProgramming

About

I have experience in Data science, ML, AI, Deep Learning, Statistics, and a little bit of compilers. Previously, I have worked on - Gemini Distillation for Scalable Deployment - Gemini Diffusion - modeling - <500MB VLMs and novel loss functions for activation quantization and model compression - running vision models on Qualcomm AR1 - Phd on using VAEs for NLP - Ad optimization at Amazon - Best paper award at ACL Workshop on conversational agents

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Vizopsai

CTO

Sep 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Building Vizops.ai

Google deepmind

Senior Research Engineer

Feb 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

Working on next gen LM architectures.

Sigmascheme llc

Generative AI Consultant

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

Help seed stage AI startups in implementing multimodal LLMs, RAG, and general ML projects.

AlgorithmsMachine LearningGenerative AI Tools

Oracle

Principal Data Scientist

Jan 2022 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon

3 roles

Senior Applied Scientist

Dec 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 mo

Applied Scientist (Contextual Bandits@Amazon Prime)

Apr 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

Applied Scientist (Dialogue State Tracking @Amazon Alexa)

Apr 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr

Clsp

PHD Student

Jan 2013 – Apr 2019 · 6 yrs 3 mos

Aspiring minds

RnD Engineer

Sep 2012 – Aug 2013 · 11 mos

Goldman sachs

Strategist

Jul 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr

Operation risk modelling, Erroneous trade alerts

· apra infotech private limited

Intern

Jul 2009 – Aug 2009 · 1 mo

Created an application on the Unity3D game Engine to display arabic images as text
Successfully finished task within deadline after learning an unknown platform