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title: "Ashish Rout - Senior Data Scientist in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ashish Rout, Sr. Data Scientist (GenAI, AdTech) at Target || IISc Gold Medalist || Past: Flipkart, Micron based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes gemini, grok, and llava."
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# Ashish Rout on Tal

## Headline

Sr\. Data Scientist \(GenAI, AdTech\) at Target \|\| IISc Gold Medalist \|\| Past: Flipkart, Micron

## About

Built and scaled up multiple enterprise\-grade LLM/NLP/CV powered applications\. Operates at the intersection of machine learning and engineering\. Fast learner and in for working on any value\-driven business problem\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

gemini

grok

llava

n8n

## Work experience

Senior Data Scientist at Target, Aug 2023 \- Present · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru, Currently working in AdTech domain\. Past : Bunch of works involving Generative AI, NLP and Computer Vision\. 1\. Realtime OCR for package identification in warehouse 2\. Target Shopping Assistant : Evaluation and guardrails 3\. Content Moderation Pipeline \(Harmful content \+ PII redaction\)for Target's GenAI platform 4\. LLM powered classification of competitor products into Target's merchandising hierarchy 5\. Streamlining prep\-code \(packaging strategy\) assignment for Target's products 6\. Automated creation of dimension\-annotated product image

Applied Scientist Intern at Flipkart, May 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. High potential product identification from product attributes and image 2\. Categorisation of competitor's products into Flipkart verticals

Data Science Intern at Micron Technology, Jun 2021 \- Aug 2021 · 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, 1\. Prediction of functional properties of semiconductor chips from sensor signal 2\. Awarded PPO for performance

## Education

Master of Technology \- MTech, Computational and Data Science, Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\)

B\.S, Materials \+ Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science \(IISc\)

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