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title: "Ujjawal Soni - Data Science Lead in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Ujjawal Soni, Data Science Lead @ CRED | Ex - Samsung Research | IIT Madras based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude, and gemini."
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# Ujjawal Soni on Tal

## Headline

Data Science Lead @ CRED \| Ex \- Samsung Research \| IIT Madras

## About

I am currently working in the Data Science team at CRED, primarily focusing on personalisation and recommendation\. Previously, I was working as a Lead Engineer \(Machine Learning\) at Samsung R&D Institute Bengaluru, India\. As part of the Visual Understanding team, I worked on developing efficient computer vision solutions to solve complex machine learning problems in real\-time and on\-device\. Prior to the corporate world, I graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras with B\.Tech\. and M\.Tech\. in Computer Science & Engineering\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

gemini

hugging face

langchain

Pinecone

## Work experience

Data Science Lead at CRED, Aug 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Engineer at SAMSUNG R&D INSTITUTE INDIA \- BANGALORE PRIVATE LIMITED, Mar 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As a member of the Visual Understanding team: \- Designed, trained, and deployed efficient deep neural network architecture for object detection in images\. Developed solution detects more than 500 diverse object categories and runs completely on\-device in real\-time as part of the AI Gallery photo search engine in the Samsung S21 series\. \- Worked on challenging video understanding problems for upcoming flagship smartphones\.

Senior Software Engineer at SAMSUNG R&D INSTITUTE INDIA \- BANGALORE PRIVATE LIMITED, Jul 2018 \- Mar 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, As a member of the Visual Understanding team: \- Designed and trained resource \(memory and FLOPs\) efficient deep learning solutions for human\-object, human\-human, and pet\-object interaction detection in images\. \- Developed solution was commercialized for on\-device AI Gallery Search in the flagship Samsung S21 smartphone series\. \- Trained deep neural networks in Caffe for real\-time and on\-device instance segmentation in images\. Developed solution was first commercialized in Samsung S10 series\.

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Jan 2018 \- May 2018 · 5 mos, Chennai Area, India, Teaching Assistant for Object Oriented Algorithms Implementation & Analysis course at IIT Madras\.

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Aug 2017 \- Dec 2017 · 5 mos, Greater Chennai Area, Teaching Assistant for Principles of Machine Learning course at IIT Madras\.

Research Intern at Adobe, May 2016 \- Jul 2016 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Introduced the notion of fairness in recommendations in two\-sided platforms, where users have two personas \- consumers and creators\. \- Built recommendation algorithm which ensures fairness to content creators and gives representatively diverse and personalized recommendations to consumers\. \- Filed two US patents and published a research paper on the innovations\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\) \+ Master of Technology \(M\. Tech\.\), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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