Thariq Khalid

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia18 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Over a decade of expertise in AI and Deep Learning.
  • Pioneered AI models for Indian languages.
  • Led development of Vision Language Models.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and Computer Vision, specializing in innovative solutions for diverse applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai SolutionsComputer VisionDeep LearningChatbot DevelopmentImage ProcessingLanguage ModelingNatural Language Processing

Other Skills

People ManagementDepartment ManagementLarge Language Models (LLM)LeadershipChange ManagementSystem ArchitectureVision Language ModelsGenerative AIPyTorchTensorFlowEdge deviceVideo AnalyticsDocument ProcessingDeep Neural Networks (DNN)Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

About

Thariq is at the forefront of developing Large Vision Foundation models and Vision Language Models, addressing diverse applications such as Earth observation, and 3D neural rendering. With over a decade of expertise in AI, Deep Learning for Computer Vision and NLP for the past, Thariq has a rich background in AI Research and development. His career in AI began at Samsung R&D Institute, where he developed Language Models for Arabic and vision recognition systems. Previously, he developed AI models for Indian languages, significantly advancing the digitization of Indian texts. Following that, he developed a Seq2Seq HR chatbot and a Computer Vision system for detecting theft in self-checkout systems at Target Corp’s U.S. stores.

Experience

18 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Elm company

4 roles

Senior Manager, Computer Vision and Digital Twin

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Manager, Computer Vision

May 2023Mar 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Leading a team of AI Researchers and Engineers:-
  • Building Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Vision Models for 3D reconstruction, Remote Sensing, and People Analytics
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to create MVPs
  • Publish Papers and file patents in venues such as CVPR, ICLR and NeurIPS
  • Building Multi agents product
People ManagementDepartment ManagementAI SolutionsLarge Language Models (LLM)Deep LearningLeadership+6

Principal Research Scientist

Promoted

Dec 2021May 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Create PoCs in AI and Computer Vision for various sectors including Municipalities, Heritage, Transportation, Traffic Violations,
  • Publishing papers and papers in venues such as CVPR and NeurIPS
AI SolutionsDeep LearningTensorFlowSystem ArchitectureGenerative AIComputer Vision+1

Data Scientist

Sep 2018Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Leading project on Double Parking with Jetson AI edge device.. including ROS on Jetson
  • Arabic Sign Language and published paper at IEEE access
  • Worked on Cross-Age Face Recognition
AI SolutionsDeep LearningTensorFlowSystem ArchitectureEdge deviceGenerative AI+2

Target

Lead Engineer in Machine learning

Aug 2017Sep 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Sequence to Sequence HR Chatbot
  • Self Checkout Theft Detection at Target Stores
AI SolutionsVideo AnalyticsDeep LearningTensorFlowSystem ArchitectureChatbot Development+3

Versé innovation pvt ltd

2 roles

Principal Research Engineer

Aug 2016Jul 2017 · 11 mos

  • OCR in production
  • Video Classification
AI SolutionsDeep LearningImage ProcessingTensorFlowSystem ArchitectureGenerative AI+2

Senior Research Engineer

Jan 2016Aug 2016 · 7 mos

  • Language Models for 9 Indian languages
  • OCR of Indian Language books in production with >95% accuracy
AI SolutionsDeep LearningOptical Character Recognition (OCR)TensorFlowSystem ArchitectureGenerative AI+2

Blueocean market intelligence

Senior Data Scientist

Feb 2015Jan 2016 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Projects' highlights:-
  • 1. Topic modeling of call center calls based on transcription
  • 2. Building a product based on Sentiment Analysis, Classification and more
Natural Language UnderstandingAI SolutionsTopic ModelingWord EmbeddingsNatural Language ProcessingGenerative AI

Samsung electronics

Lead Engineer

Aug 2007Jan 2015 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

  • Projects' highlights:
  • 1. Online Handwriting Recognition for Arabic, Hindi and Farsi using Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing for N-Class Language Modelling using SRILM.
  • 2. Webkit Browser Web page Rendering
AI SolutionsNatural Language ProcessingNeural NetworksGenerative AIComputer Vision

Education

University of Arizona

Master of Science - MS Data Science and AI

National Institute of Technology Calicut

Engineer's Degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2003Jan 2007

Harvard Business School

Management Essentials

Augment.org

Master of Business Administration - MBA — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Apr 2025Present

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