CEO & Co-Founder @ Think Evolve Labs | Data Scientist | US Patent Holder | LinkedIn Top Voice
I build AI solutions for the next billion users — from enterprise data-first strategies to AI for wildlife conservation and sustainability.
- 🧠 12+ years in data science, machine learning, and cloud computing
- 🏢 Running Think Evolve Labs, an award winning DPIIT recognized AI startup with deep expertise in building and deploying LLMs and enterprise agentic deployments
- 💼 Formerly VP of Data Science at Edelweiss Financial Services — Set up AI CoE, 40+ AI/ML proof-of-concepts, ₹1.5 Cr+ quarterly cost savings, Anti-Money Laundering(AML) Triage, Top 3% and part of Business Leadership Program
- 📜 US Patent holder (US11430236B1) — segmented numeral character recognition
- 🤝 Contributor at MLCommons — co-author of the Agentic Product Maturity Ladder and LLM Jailbreak Benchmark (AILuminate Security), Pluralis multimodal, multilingual database
- 🎓 PGDM (Finance), IIM Indore · BE (Electronics), University of Pune
- 🥇 RoadAI Competition Winner (Nora.ai, 2023) — AI to reduce carbon footprint in road construction
- 🏅 Economic Times Government DigiTech Awards — Gold (2023)
- 🐅 Telangana Forest AI Grand Challenge Winner (2022) — built VanNetra, an AI wildlife species detection platform piloted in tiger sanctuaries
- 🛰️ ESA COVID-19 Custom Script Competition Winner (2020)
- 📊 Kaggle COVID-19 Dataset Challenge — 3rd place
- 🎤 Presented at the Global AI Summit Hyderabad and MeitY (IndiaAI mission); panelist at NASSCOM NASTECH on AI for Biodiversity
Computer Vision Deep Learning Agentic AI LLM Benchmarking & AI Safety Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing NLP & Chatbots AI for Social Good
- AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
- Deep Learning Specialization (DeepLearning.AI)
- Intel Edge AI Certification
- CFA Level 1 & 2
- Scientific Reviewer, OpenReview
- Team Lead (Volunteer), CoronaWhy — ML on 250M+ tweets for COVID misinformation detection
- Volunteer Teacher, Teach India (Times of India)
