Prateek Chhikara

AI Researcher

San Francisco, California, United States4 yrs 5 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Developed innovative AI solutions enhancing user engagement.
  • Recognized for impactful research contributions in top conferences.
  • Achieved significant performance improvements in AI models.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled AI/ML Engineer specializing in multimodal models and scalable ML systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Language Models (llm)Large Language Model Operations (llmops)Artificial Intelligence (ai)Computer VisionGenerative Neural NetworksResearchData ScienceMachine Learning

Other Skills

C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data AnalyticsData ModelingDatabase Management System (DBMS)DebuggingDigital Image ProcessingExploratory Data AnalysisFlaskHTML5Image ProcessingJavaJavaScriptKerasLanguage Modeling

About

Experienced AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience developing and deploying innovative AI solutions across startups, research labs, and industry. Specializing in multimodal models, LLMs, and scalable ML systems. Recognized for impactful research contributions (ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS), open-source projects, and successful production deployments that enhance performance and user engagement.

Experience

4 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
6 mos
Current Experience

Mistral ai

Applied AI Engineer

Dec 2025Present · 6 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Mem0 (embedchain)

Founding AI Engineer

Jul 2024Nov 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

  • ➤ Developed a cutting-edge memory solution for AI agents to allow highly personalized interactions through adaptive context retention.
  • ➤ Engineered a memory-centric LLM pipeline, increasing answer quality by 26% compared to OpenAI and reducing token and latency costs by 90%.
  • ➤ Developed scalable memory retrieval pipelines and established evaluations to measure performance across add and search methods.
  • ➤ Implemented a Neo4j-based graph-memory for efficient entity storage and retrieval, boosting context awareness and response accuracy.
Large Language Models (LLM)Large Language Model Operations (LLMOps)Prompt Engineering

Autoenhance.ai

AI Engineer

Jan 2024Jul 2024 · 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

  • ➤ Improved image quality globally and locally through selective detail enhancement, achieving a 23% increase in customer satisfaction.
  • ➤ Developed a Siamese network for detecting similar HDR bracket images, achieving artifact-free merging with 0.82 Silhouette Score.
  • ➤ Engineered an image censoring system with 91% mAP@0.5, masking sensitive data (license plates, people faces, etc.) to ensure privacy.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Computer VisionImage ProcessingGenerative Neural Networks

Usc information sciences institute

AI Researcher

Aug 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos · Marina del Rey, California, United States · On-site

  • ➤ Utilized prompt engineering and memory-based approaches in large language models to enhance text-based game playing.
  • ➤ Designed reinforcement learning agents with enhanced memory, language grounding, and object affordances. [Published at K-Cap 2023][Best Student Paper Award]
  • ➤ Enhanced visual question answering system by implementing visual cropping methods to focus specific regions in images. [Published at NeurIPS 2023]
  • ➤ Developed a multimodal approach to generate recipes from food images using attention-based vision and language models. [Published at WACV 2024]
Generative Neural NetworksStatisticsLanguage ModelingProblem SolvingVisual Question AnsweringDebugging+1

Housing.com

Data Scientist

Jul 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • ➤ Utilized analytical and technical expertise to deliver insights and suggestions for business progress.
  • ➤ Achieved 92% precision on fraud engine by leveraging historical and session-level attributes to block fake leads on platform.
  • ➤ Developed a computer vision pipeline to create 3D floor plans from spherical projections, saving 400 work hours/month.
  • ➤ Automated image auditing process, saving $40k/year and increased online traffic by 12%.
  • ➤ Devised an image classifier with 93% precision and 89% recall, labeling real-estate images in real-time at 6 FPS on CPU.
  • ➤ Published two research papers in top International Conferences: ECML’22 and CODS-COMAD’23.
  • My contribution resulted in savings and an increase in online traffic. My company recognized my efforts by honoring me with the Exemplary Performer for the Year 2020-21 Award. In addition, I have been awarded the Spotlight Award twice for each Ownership and Excellence.
Computer VisionExploratory Data AnalysisMachine LearningPython (Programming Language)StatisticsProblem Solving+3

Proptiger.com

Data Scientist

Jan 2020Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • ➤ Improved image quality (contrast, brightness, sharpness, blur) resulting in 8% increase in CTR on social media campaigns.
  • ➤ Developed a No-Reference Image Quality Ranking tool to select the most visually appealing real-estate property images.
  • ➤ Launched a service that extracts real-estate entity tags from WhatsApp group messages with 87% f1-score.
Computer VisionMachine LearningPython (Programming Language)StatisticsData ModelingProblem Solving+2

Education

University of Southern California

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 2022May 2024

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jul 2016Jul 2020

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