Vikas Yadav

AI Researcher

Mountain View, California, United States10 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in developing multilingual NLP systems.
Proven track record in natural language generation.
Strong background in complex information retrieval.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leading expert in NLP and AI-driven conversational systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Language Models (llm)Natural Language Processing (nlp)Natural Language GenerationInformation Retrieval

Other Skills

Transformer ModelsResearch and Development (R&D)Software DevelopmentTransformersLanguage ModelingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Deep LearningGenerative AIMultilingual NLPJavaQuestion AnsweringArtificial Intelligence for BusinessProactive Natural Language GenerationDialogue systemsData Science

About

Senior Research Scientist working on diverse natural language generation problems using Large Language Models (LLM). I work on developing robust, trustworthy NLP systems that can answer complex queries (including conversational setting). My past year work has been focused on pro-active NLG using LLMs for more user friendly conversational systems. My recent work extends development of LLM based NLP systems for multiple languages and modalities. Please connect for any informal discussions :D My PhD thesis was focused on complex information retrieval and Question Answering.

Experience

10 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

2 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Servicenow

Staff Research Scientist and Lead

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · On-site

Developing dynamic multi-agent systems for complex workflows and applications.
Building Agentic Systems with focus on complex reasoning, planning, and tool usage.
Compute and resource constraint LLM compression and inference acceleration.
Preference Alignment with RLHF for improving safety and helpfulness of LLMs.
Multilingual alignment of LLMs, large scale complex (synthetic) SFT data generation.

Transformer ModelsResearch and Development (R&D)Software DevelopmentTransformersLanguage ModelingArtificial Intelligence (AI)+5

Sra

Staff Researcher (Generative AI, pro-active NLG)

Jun 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · California, United States · On-site

Staff RS working on
1) Retrieval Augmented Generation with LLMs for complex documents with text, table and images.
2) Pro-active conversational agents for multi-modal devices
3) Continual pretraining and instruction alignment of multi-lingual LLMs

Natural Language GenerationTransformer ModelsInformation RetrievalMultilingual NLPJavaResearch and Development (R&D)+14

Amazon

RS II

Jan 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · Los Angeles, California, United States

Web domain question answering and information retrieval
Extraction of higher quality webpages for reliable QA

Natural Language GenerationDeep LearningWeb scale Information RetrievalTransformer ModelsInformation RetrievalJava+11

Ibm

NLP Intern

Aug 2020 – Nov 2020 · 3 mos · Yorktown Heights, New York, United States

Confident+Explainable neural information retrieval and question answering systems
Multi-lingual Question Answering

Natural Language GenerationTransformer ModelsResearch and Development (R&D)Software DevelopmentNatural Language Processing (NLP)Data Science+1

Bosch

Conversational AI Research Intern

Jul 2019 – Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

Natural Language Understanding of user queries to conversational AI systems.
Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation of user queries.
User intent classification and sarcasm detection (in collaboration with other intern).

Natural Language GenerationTransformer ModelsResearch and Development (R&D)Software DevelopmentNatural Language Processing (NLP)Language Modeling

Nvidia

Applied Scientist Intern

Mar 2019 – May 2019 · 2 mos · Santa Clara, California

Worked on Natural Language Understanding (NLU) of user reviews in gaming with GeForce Now team.

Natural Language GenerationTransformer ModelsResearch and Development (R&D)Software DevelopmentTransformersNatural Language Processing (NLP)+1

Department of computer science at the university of arizona

Research Associate

Aug 2015 – Aug 2020 · 5 yrs · Tucson, Arizona Area

Research - Explainable Question Answering, Language Modeling and Named Entity Recognition
Conference papers - ACL 2020, EMNLP 2019, NAACL 2019, SIGIR 2018, COLING 2018 (All first and the only student authored papers)

Natural Language GenerationTransformer ModelsJavaSoftware DevelopmentNatural Language Processing (NLP)Language Modeling