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title: "Yashaswi Pathak - Head of AI in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Yashaswi Pathak, Head of AI @ Bicycle | ICML, AAAI | IIIT Hyderabad based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and claude."
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# Yashaswi Pathak on Tal

## Headline

Head of AI @ Bicycle \| ICML, AAAI \| IIIT Hyderabad

## About

ML researcher turned AI engineer\. Published at ICML and AAAI on graph neural networks and RL for drug discovery — co\-authored with Yoshua Bengio\. Currently leading AI at Bicycle, building agentic analytics systems for real\-time business intelligence\. Previously: IIIT Hyderabad dual degree \(B\.Tech CS \+ M\.S\. by Research\), double gold medalist\. 600\+ citations on Google Scholar\. Google Scholar: https://scholar\.google\.com/citations?user=t7NZNNYAAAAJ&hl=en

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

cursor

langgraph

langsmith

## Work experience

Head of AI at Bicycle AI, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Leading the design and development of all AI capabilities at Bicycle, including Agentic workflows, technical implementation and product design\. Translating founders' vision to the product by leading a team of engineers and collaborating with UX teams\. Managing product design, product planning, technical architecture, and implementation\. Startup essentials: Responding to the needs of the hour like engaging with customers on POCs,Demos, etc\.\.

Engineering Lead at Bicycle AI, Sep 2022 \- Mar 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Software Engineer at Bicycle AI, May 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Graduate Research Assistant at IIIT Hyderabad, May 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 11 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Machine Learning Researcher at 99andBeyond, Apr 2020 \- Oct 2020 · 7 mos, Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area

Teaching Assistant at IIIT Hyderabad, Jan 2019 \- Apr 2019 · 4 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Course: Computer Graphics

Undergraduate Student Researcher at IIIT Hyderabad, May 2018 \- Apr 2020 · 2 yrs, \- Applying Deep Learning techniques to tackle problems in material/drug design and discovery\.

## Education

Dual Degree, B\.Tech in Computer Science and M\.S\. by Research in Computational Natural Sciences, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad \(IIITH\)

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