Headline

Driving AI Innovation | Leader in Automotive AI | Expert in Computer vision, AI/ML, Generative AI, and Applied Research | Researcher, Inventor, Mentor

About

A seasoned AI and Machine Learning professional with over 15 years of experience in driving innovation, research, and product development across diverse domains. My expertise lies in developing and deploying AI-powered solutions, bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world applications. What I Do End-to-End AI Solutions: Design and architect machine learning and deep learning solutions for diverse domains, ensuring seamless deployment on production-grade hardware. Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. AI Research: Publish impactful research in top-tier conferences and journals, contributing to advancements in computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI. Collaboration: Partner with academia, startups, and industry leaders to push the boundaries of AI applications. Key Highlights Ph.D. in Machine Learning: Specialization in AI-based solutions for real-world challenges, focusing on inverse problems and signal processing. Developed AI solutions integrated into production systems, achieving benchmarks beyond industry standards. Publications: Presented at top conferences like CVPR, ICCV, BMVC, and others. Filed 37 patents, showcasing my commitment to innovation. Recognized as one of the 40 Under 40 Data Scientists by Analytics India Magazine in 2023

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Technical Manager (T5) at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Oct 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Visiting Faculty at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, Aug 2019 - Dec 2019 · 5 mos

Principal Engineer at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Apr 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading the AI algorithm development team for MBUX Interior assist.

Senior Technical Lead at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India, Dec 2015 - Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore, Leading the research team working in frontiers of research in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence towards, intelligent and autonomous vehicles of the future.

Engineer at Continental, May 2015 - Nov 2015 · 7 mos, Bangalore, Worked in machine learning techniques towards Autonomous driving

Research Intern at Tata Research Development and Design center, Pune, Jan 2015 - May 2015 · 5 mos, Pune, India, 1. Working on an interdisciplinary project on Integrated Computational Material Engineering, involving machine learning/ Data mining for material development using JAVA/WEKA. 2. Working on research and development of novel constraint based support vector machine (SVM) algorithms for incorporating domain knowledge.

Senior Research Fellow at Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, kalpakkam, Aug 2011 - Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Kalpakkam, 1. Worked as a co-investigator of a project with multidisciplinary team involving signal recovery and object recognition. 2. Worked as a team member in a project involving data fusion.

Junior Research Fellow at Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research, kalpakkam, Aug 2009 - Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo, kalpakkam, Worked as an independent researcher for a project involving machine learning for application of a real world problem of nondestructive evaluation.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Inverse problems, Nondestructive evaluation, Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research - Homi Bhabha National Institute

Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras