Vishal Kakkar

AI Researcher

Mountain View, California, United States12 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.
Led data science initiatives at Flipkart and Microsoft.
Strong background in fraud detection and query understanding.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist specializing in E-commerce and AI-driven solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Natural Language Processing (nlp)Deep Learning

Other Skills

Data ScienceApache SparkPythonOptimizationAlgorithmsData StructuresSoftware DevelopmentTestingMachine LearningBig DataData MiningData AnalysisComputer ScienceAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

About

Experienced Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Python, Pattern Recognition, and Data Science. Strong engineering professional with a Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) focused in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science.

Experience

12 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Principal Applied Scientist

Promoted

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Principal Data and Applied Scientist

Jul 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Working in Core Relevance and AI team

Deep LearningNatural Language Processing (NLP)

Flipkart

2 roles

Senior Data Scientist

Jul 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs

Search: DS Tech lead for Query understanding and Semantic group in Flipkart. Working on Query-Product relevance, Query classification, Semantic matching and intent prediction using NER.

Data Scientist

Dec 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Trust & Safety: Worked on problems related to fraud detections like, Reseller Fraud, Logo Infringement and seller protection frauds. Developed capabilities like Address Clustering, Gibberish Address detection using unsupervised methods, Brand Detection in images.
User Insight: Worked on prediction of demographic attributes of user comprising: gender, age, marital status, ethnicity etc.
Search: Worked on Vernacular Search system, Query Translation, Transliteration and Contextual Spell correction .