Bilwasiva B.

AI Researcher

Columbus, Ohio, United States12 yrs 2 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led 39+ transformative AI/ML projects across MNCs.
  • Achieved 98% precision and 99% recall in innovative models.
  • Recognized with multiple awards for exemplary performance.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning and AI expert with a strong focus on E-commerce and Telecommunications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningDeep LearningNatural Language Processing (nlp)Computer Vision

Other Skills

Neural NetworksRisk ManagementData ScienceBusiness Decision MakingProject ManagementGitHub CopilotCost ManagementCUDAData MiningProduct ManagementMicrosoft CopilotLarge Language Models (LLM)PythonCompetitive AnalysisAmazon Web Services (AWS)

About

As a seasoned ML Scientist Tech Lead with over 9 years of experience, I spearheaded the development & end-to-end ML lifecycle of 39+ transformative AI/ML projects across multiple MNCs like Amazon, Cisco, Rakuten, Microsoft, Oracle. My career has been marked by a relentless pursuit of innovation, driving high-performing teams to deliver strategic initiatives which significantly impact business outcomes.I have worked on advanced domains of Artificial Intelligence (Computer Vision, Deep Learning, NLP, NLG, Graph Neural networks, Large Language Models, Recommender system, Agentic AI), along with my Bachelor's, Master's degrees in Computer Science and an ongoing STEM MBA at OSU Fisher. I am actively seeking new opportunities like Senior/Principal/Lead Applied Scientist, Research Scientist, Data Scientist, Engineering Manager, SDM & senior leadership roles where I can leverage my technical expertise, strategic vision, passion for innovation to drive groundbreaking growth & achieve unparalleled business success.Technical Skills-Programming Languages: Python, C++, R, Java, ScalaMicro-services: Docker, KubernetesBig Data Frameworks: Spark, HadoopMachine Learning: Classification, Regression, Ensemble Models- Random Forest, Boosting (GBM, LightGBM, XGBoost), Reinforcement Learning, Probabilistic Models, Data ScienceDeep Learning: LSTM, CNN, Transfer Learning, OptimizationFunctional ML Skills: Statistics, Probability, Recommendation Systems, Feature Engineering, Hyper-parameter TuningComputer Vision- Object Detection Models: YOLO, SSD, Faster R-CNN, EfficientNetNatural Language Processing: Word2Vec, GloVe, fastText; Transformers- BERT, RoBERTa, BART, XLNet, T5, GPT-3 Large Language Models (LLM): GPT-5, Falcon, Claude, Llama, Alpaca, Vicuna, Mistral, Mixtral8x7B, ChatGPT, Phi, Llama, DeepSeekGen AI Tools: SFT, IFT, PEFT, LORA, QLORA, RAG, RLHF, DPO, Langchain, Vector DB, Mixture of Experts, Prompt EngineeringMy reputation as a proven Principal Applied Scientist is built on executing innovative projects in ML, coupled with exceptional interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills. I am recognized with employee awards for exemplary performance. I've strong track record of mentoring & interviewing talent.Let's connect- I am eager to bring my expertise to new projects. fOR Recruiters & hiring managers, I'm seeking internship & full-time roles in AI/ML domain where I can drive impactful solutions and lead teams & orgs.Career goals:ML EngineerData ScientistResearch ScientistAI ResearcherApplied ScientistML ScientistAI ConsultantML Mentor

Experience

12 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
5 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Amazon

Principal Applied Scientist

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · India

  • Innovated an unsupervised image matching model ”HELIUM-PRISM” to accelerate product mapping in Amazon Kindle, Goodreads & promote de-duplication in eBook catalog for 84 external competitors across 3 continents.
  • Achieved performance of 98% precision, 99% recall for unmatched decision & 99% precision for matched decision.
  • Enhanced the model & outperformed baseline (VGG, ResNet, Inception) with 9X speed & 14X better memory.
  • Led a team of 4 engineers in deploying the model architecture & pipelines to production using AWS SageMaker.
  • Augmented Kindle purchase by 15% with enriched catalogue & optimised pricing, and generated high impact.
  • Deployed a novel hierarchical clustering model for a layout agnostic promotion-monitoring project to identify relevant product/promotion banners from a retail webpage with metadata info & obtained 99.6% recall & 98.7% precision.
  • Evolved product-matching model Sherlock using hybrid of BERT & ELECTRA transformers, few-shot learning on text attributes for 6 GLs (ebook, music, video, podcast, app, games) & reduced onboarding time from 6 months to 3 weeks
  • Built an online tag-generation model with BART for catalogue search intelligence with 93% precision@10 & 0.85 MRR.
  • Created recommendation architecture for MiniTV with NeuMF, BERT4Rec & attained 0.87 NDCG & 0.89 mAP.
  • Mentored 21 people at Amazon from 4 teams including SDEs, Data Scientists, Applied Scientists, BIEs and interns, and conducted 29 interviews.
  • Excelled in completion of novel & challenging projects in the domain of Machine Learning, Deep Computer Vision, NLP, Graph Neural Networks, Recommender Systems.
  • Received the Budding Star Award recognition in my DCCS Org (Amazon Kindle team) within the 1st year of my work at Amazon in December 2021.
  • Awarded with the First prize in Amazon internal Hackathon 2022 for my winning solution & implementation of Deep Computer Vision models out of 300+ employees in my Org, in June 2022.
Machine LearningNeural NetworksRisk ManagementData ScienceBusiness Decision MakingProject Management+45

Oracle

Senior Applied Scientist

Jan 2019Jan 2021 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Pioneered vision of Multimodal Large Language Model & crafted 4-quarter roadmap with 25% faster time-to-delivery.
  • Owned 9 Document Understanding models leading a 16-member team to deliver customized solution for 42 clients.
  • Spearheaded the operational efficiency drive 2023-24 by designing org level Knowledge Graphs to automate KTLO oncall
  • maintenance work, reduce manual efforts & conserve bandwidth of 50+ support engineers & in mission-critical projects.
  • Contributed to leading project milestones & critical phases of ML life-cycle development across 4 Cerner Health verticals
  • (Relation, Extraction, Assertion, NER) impacting 27k customers globally & enhancing user retention rate by 18%.
Risk ManagementBusiness Decision MakingGitHub CopilotCost ManagementCUDAData Mining+20

Rakuten india

Research Scientist

Aug 2018Jan 2019 · 5 mos · India

  • Built an Object Detection Model using YOLOv3 on PyTorch interface to detect and localize antenna pole structure from video feed data (streamed from in-house cameras in Rakuten 5G Towers) and enhanced business KPIs.
  • Implemented a robust scientific model to measure the bending angle of antenna pole using morphological OpenCV techniques like Canny Edge Detection & Probabilistic Hough Transform, Grab-Cut algorithm and DBSCAN based pixel clustering.
  • Performed several POCs using several SOTA models & architectures on different versions of noisy data
  • Obtained a model confidence score of 0.845 along with an IOU (Intersection over Union) ratio of 0.72 for the predicted class probabilities of bounding boxes after optimising model using data augmentation snd hyper-parameters.
  • Deployed the model to production using TensorFlow Extended (TFX) in GCP environment.
Machine LearningRisk ManagementBusiness Decision MakingProject ManagementCost ManagementData Mining+17

Cisco

Software Engineer

Jan 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · India

  • Built an online, lightweight & hybrid Machine Learning model (combination of Random Forest, Gaussian Naive Bayes, Gradient Boosting) from scratch to solve Anomaly Detection in Network patterns and achieved an accuracy of 98.4% along with an RMSE of 0.33.
  • Developed Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for device health monitoring and fault tolerance in Cisco's Smart Router device with a confidence score of 87.86%.
  • Leveraged Graph Neural Network (GNN) algorithms to generate novel Network patterns with optimized bottleneck bandwidth.
  • Generated a Hand Gesture recognition model (using ResNet50 as backbone architecture) in real-time Webex videos for assisting specially abled persons; and attained an inference accuracy of 99.97% in detection of palm & hand landmarks.
Machine LearningRisk ManagementData ScienceProject ManagementData MiningPython+14

Microsoft

Research Fellow

Jan 2016Dec 2016 · 11 mos

  • Completed my Bachelor’s Thesis Dissertation ”Brain Computer Interface Controlled NAO Humanoid”, an outsourced research project worth of 15,000$, in collaboration with Microsoft Research India and BITS Pilani Computer Science Dept.
  • Built a functional prototype for synchronous interaction of neural impulses with a cognitive gesture-controlled robot.
  • Received BITS Merit Scholarship during my thesis for perfect 10 CGPA & as a mark of Accomplishment & Innovation.
  • Designed a hybrid Machine Learning algorithm using Common Spatial Pattern (CSP) algorithm, GNNs, & PCA based dimensionality reduction to extract a target stimulus from EEG; and performed Integration with real-time framework Choregraphe with 93% efficiency.
Project ManagementData MiningDeep Neural Networks (DNN)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Deep LearningSoftware Development+2

Indian statistical institute, kolkata

Research Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos

  • Artificial Intelligence based Imbalance detection [for credit card fault analysis] using a hybridisation of SVM with Gaussian Kernel and other unsupervised techniques of dimensionality reduction.
  • Optimised the model performance on novel data using LDA & Fisher discriminant analysis.
  • Enhanced accuracy of model to 92% by using non-linear gaussian kernels and some other techniques like MCM [based on few research papers].

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Research And Development Scientist

May 2014Jul 2014 · 2 mos

  • Worked on an intelligent method of implementing PWM in wind and solar converter for
  • MPPT algorithm.
  • Used PSO, Genetic algorithm on top of a real-time simulation using Python scripts on FPGA board.
  • Solved problem of overshooting minima in Gradient Descent algorithm using a self-learning adaptive learning-rate reducing oscillation frequency by 29%.
Machine Learning

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani

Professional Teaching Assistant

Jan 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

  • Teaching Assistant Executive in courses of CS Dept-
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Information Retrieval
  • Neural Networks & Fuzzy Logic
  • Advanced Data Mining
  • Software Testing
  • Computer Programming
  • Microprocessor Interfacing
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.

Education

The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business

Master of Business Administration - MBA

Aug 2025Apr 2027

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Science

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Engineering - MEng — Computer Science

Harvard Business School Online

Credential of Readiness (CORe)

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya

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