Experience

Founding Head of AI, Krutrim (http://olakrutrim.com/)

• Building the full AI stack for India, a country with over a billion voices and diverse linguistic landscapes. 

• Bridging the gap between urban and grassroots communities through multilingual foundation models that can generate and understand natural language across multiple domains and modalities

• Built the world's first India foundation model called "Krutrim", which is a multimodal LLM outperforming several state-of-the-art foundation models in the Indian context
  
  

Co-founder, Got It AI (September 2020 - Present)

Building world's first "Fully Autonomous Conversational AI"
Leading Tech, Ecosystem and Marketing Vision for Got It AI

Lead Research Scientist, Uber AI  (Oct 2018 - September 2020)

Lead Conversational AI, Multi-modal AI and Recommendation Systems for Uber

Lead AI Scientist, Alexa Prize, Amazon Alexa AI  (Jan 2017 - Oct 2018)

Part of the Alexa's Conversational AI Team as the Lead Scientist for the Alexa Prize. I built and deployed several models such as: 

• • Contextual Topic Detection

  • Language Understanding Models

  • Offensive/Inappropriate Content Detection Models

  • Conversational Speech Recognition Models

  • Dialog Evaluation Models

  • Neural Language Generation Models

  • Conversational Bot Toolkit

  • Conversational AI

Applied Researcher, eBay Applied Research Group (July 2015 - Jan 2018)

Part of the Applied Research group, drove several NLP and Machine Learning projects leading to significant gains for eBay.

• • Led the Science for Item Listing Page and SEO at eBay. 

  • Built personalized recommendation signals for users. 

  • Designed and implemented Automatic Text Summarizers for eBay product and item pages. 

Software Engineer, Oracle (July 2012 - July 2013)

Part of the Applied Research group, drove several NLP and Machine Learning projects leading to significant gains for eBay.