Sumant Kulkarni Ph.D (AI)

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Expert in AI-driven solutions for business transformation.
Ph.D. in Information Technology with a focus on AI.
Proven track record in leading high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in AI-driven digital transformation and product management.

Contact

sumanthaskulkarni@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Digital TransformationArtificial Intelligence (ai)Product Management

Other Skills

Generative AI ToolsAI AgentsLarge Language Models (LLM)Text mining/ NLPGraph MiningMachine LearningDeep LearningDesignNatural Language Processing (NLP)Software DevelopmentData ScienceTeam LeadershipStrategyProduct MarketingStrategic Planning

About

As Technology Transformation and Innovation Lead at EY, I lead efforts to design and implement AI-driven solutions that enable Managed Service Transformation. Leveraging expertise in digital transformation and generative AI tools, our team focuses on developing impactful innovations tailored to address complex business challenges. With a Ph.D. in Information Technology (AI) and nearly 11 months in this role, my mission is to bridge advanced AI research with practical enterprise applications. This includes fostering collaboration, mentoring teams, and advancing AI-driven transformation to empower organizations and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Experience

19 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 7 mos

Current Experience

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AI, Data, Technology Transformation and Innovation Lead (GMS)

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading a talented team of experts to design innovative AI-driven solutions for Managed Service Transformation.
Driving continuous innovation in Application Managed Services, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and overall performance.
Developing cutting-edge agentic AI-based transformation tools to improve value delivery and client satisfaction for AMS.
Utilizing advanced AI tools and technologies like Now Assist, Agentforce, and SAP Joule to effectively optimize processes and workflows.

Digital TransformationGenerative AI ToolsArtificial Intelligence (AI)AI AgentsLarge Language Models (LLM)Text mining/ NLP+4

Kloud9

Senior Vice President - Data Science and Products

May 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Defined the overall vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business goals.
Spearheaded the development of machine learning-based products for Ghost Stock detection (retail domain), enhancing Kloud9's product offerings.
Led AI development initiatives to align with market needs and technological advancements.
Built and managed a high-performing AI and Data Engineering team, focusing on skill enhancement and professional growth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Natural Language Processing (NLP)Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentData ScienceDigital Transformation+6

Zensar technologies

4 roles

Associate Vice President - AI

Jul 2022 – May 2023 · 10 mos

Spearheaded AI practice and research management, driving innovation in multimodal AI applications.
Led AI product management and co-innovation initiatives, enhancing customer engagement through tailored AI solutions.
Mentored teams on AI project execution, resulting in the successful development of over 30 unique AI patents.

ConsultingResearchProduct ManagementDigital TransformationText mining/ NLPGraph Mining+11

Director and Head of Artificial Intelligence (R&D)

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Jul 2022 · 3 yrs

ConsultingResearchProduct ManagementDigital TransformationTensorFlowStrategic Planning+2

Senior Scientist & Senior Manager - Zenlabs AI

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

Research

Research Scientist, Lead - Entepreise AI @ Zenlabs

Feb 2018 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Building NLP, CV and other types of ML Solutions.

Research

Reverie language technologies pvt ltd

Researcher and Data Scientist in NLP and Text Mining

Aug 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru

Worked on various NLP problems for low resource languages. Focussed majorly on cross-lingual Word Sense Disambiguation, Language Detection, and low resource language sentiment analysis.

Research

Kno.e.sis - ohio center of excellence in knowledge-enabled computing

Visiting Research Scholar

Jan 2016 – Jul 2016 · 6 mos · Dayton Metropolitan Area

I was a visiting scholar at the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing (Kno.e.sis) at Wright State University. I was focusing on detecting harassment on online social media.

Research

International institute of information technology - bangalore

2 roles

Research Scholar (Ph.D)

Aug 2011 – Dec 2016 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Completed my Ph.D. in text semantics mining and information retrieval. My academic research focused on understanding how term co-occurrence patterns can be used to mine different semantic relationship between terms and documents. We worked on building computational models for identification of narration similarity between documents.
I have also worked on South Indian Language Information Retrieval. We have developed an indexing, retrieval and ranking algorithms for Kannada, a South Indian Language.

Research

Search Engine Researcher and Project Coordinator

Dec 2010 – Dec 2015 · 5 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I worked on south Indian language Information Retrieval. We have developed an indexing, retrieval and ranking algorithms for Kannada, a south Indian language. I was also responsible for project co-ordination as well.

Research

Nds services pay tv pvt.ltd

Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Dec 2010 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I was responsible for (a) Design and Development of EPGE for a major US based DTH service provider (DirecTV) (b ) Design and Development of OCAP based EBIF agent and (c) Design and Development of Comprehensive Feature test suit for OCAP stack.

Research

Mindtree

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2007 – Jun 2008 · 7 mos · Bangalore

I was responsible for design and development of
(a) a common wrapper to integrate the usage of two SSL libraries.
(b) SSL and cryptography based unit test suite to test the encryption and SSL module of storage product of EMC.