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title: "Samuel Leslie - Senior Product Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Samuel Leslie, Building Solutions to Safeguard the Integrity of the Scientific Publication Process based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, lovable, and notebooklm."
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# Samuel Leslie on Tal

## Headline

Building Solutions to Safeguard the Integrity of the Scientific Publication Process

## About

Working with an amazing team of linguists, data scientists, and software developers and engineers to build products based on natural language processing and deep learning for language quality assessment, automated grammar error correction, image forensics, concept extraction, and text/document structuring\. These products are aimed at helping researchers get published more easily and helping academic journals optimize their manuscript acceptance and publishing processes\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

lovable

notebooklm

notion

Humanloop

Wispr Flow

## Work experience

Senior Product Manager at Cactus Communications, Feb 2020 \- Present · 6 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Head of Content and SMM at Five Stones Media House, Jul 2015 \- Feb 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Mumbai Area, India

Managing Editor at Cactus Communications, Jun 2014 \- Jun 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo, As ME for the Centers of Excellence in Materials Science and Physics, here's what I did: \- Managed a team of 65\+ editors with expertise in various fields of Materials Science and Physics, including ceramics and glass; composites; metallurgy, metals, and alloys; nanotechnology; atomic and molecular physics; quantum physics; astronomy and astrophysics; among others\. \- Helped improve client experience through initiatives for client rapport building/trust retention and provided researchers with support throughout the publication cycle\. \- Followed trends in the scientific publication industry, especially relating to Materials Science and Physics, and shared learnings with my team and our clients\.

Assistant Managing Editor at Cactus Communications, Dec 2013 \- Jun 2014 · 7 mos

Associate Editor at Cactus Communications, May 2012 \- Nov 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos, My work included: \- Editing documents, mainly research papers, to improve language, structure, logical flow, and content, with a focus on peer\-reviewed publication\. \- Reviewing documents edited by freelancers to ensure that our strict in\-house quality standards are met\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\) in Computers, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Xavier Institute of Engineering

Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology, Xavier Institute of Technology

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