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Rahul Kumar

Lead, Applied AI & Machine Learning | GenAI • Agentic AI • LLM Systems | Ex-PayPal | PhD Scholar(External) @ IIT Hyderabad

Bengaluru

13+ years of work experience

ZF Group
Mar 20242 yrs 6 mosPresent

Building Products for Fleet Orchestration Platform SCALAR(Planning, Routing and Dispatching) Fuel Sustainability Uptime & Safety of Commercial Vehicles -->Authored a defensive publication on Multi-Objective Driver–Vehicle–Operation Matching, proposing an AI-based recommendation system (two-tower neural networks + multi-task learning) to optimize fleet safety, fuel efficiency, compliance, and delivery outcomes.
PayPal
Aug 20212 yrs 8 mosMar 2024

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

worked as machine learning scientist for GADS under customer success platform. Responsibilities includes: Designing and architecting machine learning driven solution for complaint and contact management program.
Ericsson
Aug 20192 yrsJul 2021

Bengaluru Area, India

Worked as Data Scientist 2 at GAIA Ericsson Research. Developed Machine Learning as well as Deep Learning based application and frameworks based on business problems like Energy based optimization of cellular network , predicting Orderfallout and determing its root causes.
Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited
May 20181 yr 3 mosJul 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Key working areas: 1) Created solutions to find anomaly of high dimensional data using technique of compression and expansion neural network along with Gaussian Mixture model called as Deep Auto Encoding Gaussian Mixture Model. 2) Created Risk Assessment application using RNN to capture the risks of incorporating a specific part of corresponding supplier to vehicle in case of its replacement.
Capgemini
Jan 20171 yr 5 mosMay 2018

India

Accenture
Aug 20133 y 5 moJan 2017

Bengaluru

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Education

Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

Master of Technology - MTech, Data Sciences

Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering

Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

20263 yrs2029

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering

SRM INSITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

20094 yrs2013

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Headline

Lead, Applied AI & Machine Learning | GenAI • Agentic AI • LLM Systems | Ex-PayPal | PhD Scholar(External) @ IIT Hyderabad

About

👉 Experienced Data Scientist with a focus on operational efficiency, predictive analytics and search & Recommendation. ➡️ Building an autonomous, agentic platform for enterprise-scale Fleet Intelligence. ➡️ Conducts in-depth evaluations of AI models, algorithms, and data pipelines to ensure scalability, robustness, and accuracy for AI & ML Systems. ➡️ Proven track record in designing solutions that enhance customer behavior understanding, optimize business processes, and improve decision-making. ➡️ Enjoys formulating a problem in to a mathematical objective and finding optimality using statistical learning. Skills: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Agentic AI, Natural Language Processing(NLP), Recommender Systems ,Statistics, Data Analytics, Data Structures, System Design, Mlops Languages: Python, MSSQL,R Tools and Framework: Tensorflow, Pytorch, Databricks,PowerBI Cloud Services: Vertex AI , AWS, Microsoft Azure. Medium Account : https://medium.com/@rk68657

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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claude code

gemini

langchain

langgraph

langsmith

Work experience

Lead Data Scientist at ZF Group, Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos, Building Products for Fleet Orchestration Platform SCALAR(Planning, Routing and Dispatching) Fuel Sustainability Uptime & Safety of Commercial Vehicles -->Authored a defensive publication on Multi-Objective Driver–Vehicle–Operation Matching, proposing an AI-based recommendation system (two-tower neural networks + multi-task learning) to optimize fleet safety, fuel efficiency, compliance, and delivery outcomes.

MTS1 Machine Learning Scientist at PayPal, Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, worked as machine learning scientist for GADS under customer success platform. Responsibilities includes: Designing and architecting machine learning driven solution for complaint and contact management program.

Data Scientist 2 at Ericsson, Aug 2019 - Jul 2021 · 2 yrs, Bengaluru Area, India, Worked as Data Scientist 2 at GAIA Ericsson Research. Developed Machine Learning as well as Deep Learning based application and frameworks based on business problems like Energy based optimization of cellular network , predicting Orderfallout and determing its root causes.

Senior ML Engineer at Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited, May 2018 - Jul 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Key working areas: 1) Created solutions to find anomaly of high dimensional data using technique of compression and expansion neural network along with Gaussian Mixture model called as Deep Auto Encoding Gaussian Mixture Model. 2) Created Risk Assessment application using RNN to capture the risks of incorporating a specific part of corresponding supplier to vehicle in case of its replacement.

Consultant Data Science at Capgemini, Jan 2017 - May 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos, India

Senior Software Engineer at Accenture, Aug 2013 - Jan 2017 · 3 y 5 mo, Bengaluru

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Data Sciences, Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian institute of technology Hyderabad

B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, SRM INSITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Public links

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/rk68657