Arun Kumar Patil

AI Researcher

Karnataka, India19 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17+ years of experience in AI and Machine Learning.
Led multiple high-impact projects resulting in 10+ patents.
Expert in architecting complex media processing pipelines.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in AI and Machine Learning for retail and consumer electronics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceLarge Language Models (llm)Computer VisionAnalytical Skills

Other Skills

Enterprise ArchitectureMulti ModalMentoringUnsupervised LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)Problem SolvingTechnical LeadershipTransformersInterpersonal CommunicationMachine LearningTime Series AnalysisH.264ARMDigital Signal ProcessorsEmbedded Systems

About

With over 17 years of experience in AI, Machine Learning, and computer vision, computational photography technologies, I specialize in architecting complex media processing pipelines, multimodal learning systems, and innovative business solutions. I've led high-impact projects in retail, safety, and computer vision, translating into multiple patents. My expertise includes real-time AI-driven systems, and foundational models for retrieval, security, and multimedia processing. I'm passionate about delivering business-driven AI/ML solutions and mentoring teams to create scalable, resilient solutions. I have led and contributed to multiple advanced projects, including theft detection, yard management, and retail safety, and have experience developing pioneering products in AI kernel scheduling and HDR imaging.

Experience

19 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Cerebras systems

Principal Applied Scientist

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · Hybrid

Data ScienceEnterprise ArchitectureLarge Language Models (LLM)Multi Modal

Target

Principal Engineer, Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Aug 2020 – Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Architected distributed computing platforms for vision algorithm deployment across stores and data centers.
Designed AI-based solutions for theft detection and retail safety.
Filed multiple patents on AI-driven retail analytics, theft detection.
My work has translated into 10+ patents

MentoringUnsupervised LearningComputer VisionData ScienceNatural Language Processing (NLP)Analytical Skills+7

Sharechat

Principal Data Scientist

Oct 2019 – Aug 2020 · 10 mos · Bangalore

1. Content understanding and content based tag prediction and NSFW flagging
2. Song to lyrics alignment for multiple Indian languages
3. Accurate Image segmentation
4. Beats extraction from music and timed visual response to beats and templatization of the effect

Computer VisionData ScienceAnalytical SkillsMachine LearningProblem SolvingTechnical Leadership+2

Xilinx

Software Development Manager

Jan 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

1. Developed AI kernel Scheduler for Heterogenous compute systems in data centre
2. Contributed to CNN compiler for different fpga based inference engines targeted at embedded and datacenter.
3. products delivered for ML frameworks with re-training re-architected CNNs deployed via Xilinx-Mlsuite
for classification, object detection and segmentation tasks.
4. Lead the software stack and DNN quantisation and retraining for the HLS based implementation of DNN inference engine on FPGAs. Open sourced as CHaiDNN.

Analytical SkillsProblem SolvingInterpersonal Communication

Ittiam systems pvt ltd

5 roles

Principal Engineer & MTS , Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Sep 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Architect-ed CV-ML algorithms and edge-cloud compute partitions for
o Face based customer profiler and recognizer
o People counter,
o Zone performance

MentoringAnalytical SkillsProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipInterpersonal Communication

Principal Engineer & Member Technical Staff, Computer Vision

Apr 2015 – Aug 2015 · 4 mos

Undisclosed Project in the filed of Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Analytical SkillsProblem SolvingTechnical LeadershipInterpersonal Communication

Lead Engineer, Computational Photography

Promoted

Nov 2011 – Mar 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

HDR Imaging IP development for Camera Phones : Productized as vividHDR and as an IAP( in app purchase) in ProCamera on iTunes Store
Lead the HDR imaging product development effort consisting of development of various algorithms and optimizations on ARM based processors.
Developed Patent Pending HDR generation and tone-mapping algorithms.
Developed multiple tone-mapping presets and tone-mapping controls
Developed exposure invariant Image registration algorithm and scene based exposure bracketing
Multi-frame based Background modeling for detection of multiple foreground and tracking on Hand-Held Camera Phones

Analytical SkillsProblem SolvingInterpersonal Communication

Senior Engineer

Oct 2009 – Oct 2011 · 2 yrs

OpenGL for Image processing
H264 split decoder(ARM + DSP) on Texas Instrument's OMAP3 processor family. H264 High Profile decoder development. H264 decoder error resilience and error concealment

Analytical SkillsProblem Solving

Engineer

May 2008 – Sep 2009 · 1 yr 4 mos

Optimization of H264 Decoder on OMAP3430 by ensuring optimal usage of DMAs, accelerators(ILF and IVLCD), Sequencer(ARM9E-S), and DSP(C64X+).

Analytical SkillsProblem Solving

Mindtree

Engineer

Sep 2006 – May 2008 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

LaneDetection using Hough Transform, TI image library development on TI-DSP(c64x+ and c64x) , HE-AAC and AAC audio encoder porting on ARM9E and ARC-700 Respectively