Bikalpa Neupane (Bik), Ph.D.

Head of AI

Austin, Texas, United States14 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Built Fortune 500 AI practice from scratch.
  • Expert in AI, NLP, and Data Science.
  • Experienced startup founder and advisor.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Data Science for Healthcare and Education sectors.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Enterprise ArchitectureEmerging TechnologiesExperimentationData MiningNatural Language Processing (nlp)Data ScienceStartup DevelopmentAiAi ResearchMachine LearningText AnalyticsLearning AnalyticsProduction EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering

Other Skills

ScalabilityPrioritizationConsolidationTeachingAdvisingHuman-Computer InteractionFairness in AIEye TrackingSoftware ManagementSoftware EngineeringProduct StrategyEarly-stage StartupsCEOFundingCollege Recruiting

About

Testimonials : Technically solid by engineers and value creator by the C-suite in the same organization. Talking is fun, building takes the fun to 2x. Scaling enriches fun by 10x. I've shipped at every layer of the stack. Software Engineer → Data Scientist → Product Lead → Startup Founder and Adviser → Fortune 500 AI exec. Scaled enterprise AI capabilities across global operations/centers of excellence. bikalpaBneupane@gmail.com @BikalpaN

Experience

14 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Takeda

2 roles

Head of AI /Gen AI and NLP

Promoted

May 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

  • Reporting to Chief Data and Analytics Office.
  • Built a Fortune 500 AI practice from nothing - strategy, operating model, team, center of excellence, architecture, and P&L, all of it.
  • When my time allows, I try to review every architecture decision myself. So, you get both strategy and technology from me.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Enterprise ArchitectureScalability

Director - Experimentation and Emerging Technologies

Jan 2022 – May 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Remote

  • Usually the person my CTO/CDO called when they needed to know if a new technology was worth betting on.
  • Best terms in my dictionary - Prioritization, Consolidation, Rationalization, Deprecation and Decommission.
ExperimentationEmerging TechnologiesPrioritizationConsolidation

Penn state smeal college of business

Penn State Adjunct Professor - Data Science

Jan 2022 – Jul 2022 · 6 mos · State College, Pennsylvania, United States

  • I learn more when I teach.
Data ScienceTeaching

Harvard extension school

Harvard ext Co-Instructor - Data Mining & NLP

Aug 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • I teach what I practise, and I practise what I teach. I build stuff, not just slides.
Data MiningNatural Language Processing (NLP)Teaching

Ibm

IBM Watson - Natural Language Understanding (NLU)

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Got my hands dirty in production NLP long before Gen AI/LLMs were cool.
Natural Language Processing (NLP)Production Engineering

Omviser

Founder/CTO : AI driven admissions marketplace

Aug 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  • Built my own AI-powered startup from zero while advising others including Y-Combinator startups.
AIStartup DevelopmentAdvising

Human computer interaction institute of nepal (hciin)

Research Staff Member, AI

May 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 7 mos

  • I do real AI backed by research.
AI ResearchHuman-Computer Interaction

University of technology sydney

Australian Endeavour Fellow - Text Analytics

Mar 2017 – Aug 2017 · 5 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  • Used text mining at scale even before they were a thing in modern industry.
Text AnalyticsData Mining

Epfl (école polytechnique fédérale de lausanne)

Research Fellow - Eye Tracking and Learning Analytics

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

  • Eye Tracking + AI to measure learning gain @ CHILI Lab EPFL
Eye TrackingLearning Analytics

Penn state university

Graduate Student - Human Centered Machine Learning

Aug 2015 – Jun 2021 · 5 yrs 10 mos · State College, Pennsylvania Area

  • Spent couple of years making AI fairer, more explainable, and actually useful.
Machine LearningFairness in AI

Overstock.com

Software Manager, Production Engineering

Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Salt Lake City Area

  • Decison maker for any changes that goes to the mission-critical system which generates more than $1B+ in revenue/ year.
Production EngineeringSoftware Management

Microsoft

Site Reliability | Software/Service Engineer

Jun 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Redmond

  • Started my career in software and site reliability engineering. One billion unique calls per month doesn't surprise me.
Software EngineeringSite Reliability Engineering

Education

Penn State University

Doctor of Philosophy — Informatics - AI and HCI

Brigham Young University

Bachelor's degree

St. Xavier's College, Maitighar

High School Diploma

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