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title: "Soujatya Sarkar - Chief Manager - AI Engineer in Kolkata | Tal"
description: "Meet Soujatya Sarkar, AI @ Poonawalla Fincorp | HCI - BCI/BMI - Biomedical Imaging - LLM - Computer Vision | AI/ML Engineer | Masters: IIT MD ’26 | Bachelors: CU ‘23. | Ex: Turing; Allen Digital; BharatGen based in Kolkata. AI stack includes cursor, hugging face, and langchain."
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# Soujatya Sarkar on Tal

## Headline

AI @ Poonawalla Fincorp \| HCI \- BCI/BMI \- Biomedical Imaging \- LLM \- Computer Vision \| AI/ML Engineer \| Masters: IIT MD ’26 \| Bachelors: CU ‘23\. \| Ex: Turing; Allen Digital; BharatGen

## About

Looking for an ML Engineer position in top companies\. My regular Tech Stack includes: Pytorch, HuggingFace, TensorFlow, Keras, Python, C, C\+\+, Flutter, Docker\. I have 2\+ years experience in RLHF and SFT of Gemini, Expert Dataset Curation, Pretraining LLMs \(BharatGen\) and optimizing Diffusion variants\.

## Location

Kolkata

## AI stack

cursor

hugging face

langchain

langgraph

vLLM

Weights & Biases Weave

## Work experience

Chief Manager \- AI Engineer at Poonawalla Fincorp, Sep 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Pune City, AI Engineering and AI Research

Data Scientist at ALLEN Digital, May 2025 \- Oct 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru

Data Scientist at BharatGen, Jan 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mandi, IFT, SFT and RLHF of BharatGen LLM \(previously BharatGPT\)\.

Project Associate \- I at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Jan 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 1 yr, Mandi, Project Associate \- I \(Data Engineer\) in BharatGen\.

Computer Science Researcher at Turing, Nov 2024 \- Feb 2025 · 4 mos, Palo Alto, California, United States, • RLHF and SFT of Gemini\. • Curating Datasets for Multimodal VLM training for Google Deepmind\. • Curating the Google GAIA v2 dataset\.

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Jan 2024 \- Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, Courses taken: CS \- 309; DS \- 413; DS \- 411\. CS \- 309: Information and Database Systems DS \- 413: Introduction to Statistical Learning DS \- 411: Optimization in Data Science/ML

Half Time Research Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Jan 2024 \- Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, • Engaged in preliminary development of En\-Hi variant of BharatGPT, later incorporated as BharatGen\. • Engaged in development of predictive deep learning models to predict objects from robotic arm sensor signals\. • Developed a dynamic LLM based approach for MCQ Difficulty Estimation and improved RMSE of test set by ∼ 17%\. • Developed a novel conditioning method to optimize training of Stable Diffusion and improve the sample generation quality\.

## Education

Master of Technology \(Research\) \- MTech \(R\), Intelligent Systems, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Chemical Technology, University of Calcutta

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