About Me

I’m a senior AI leader and applied researcher with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. My work is driven by a deep interest in building intelligent systems that solve real-world problems—ranging from clinical decision support and post-market surveillance to scalable customer support automation using LLMs. Currently, I lead the NLP and IR efforts at Capital One, where I architect and deploy Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems that assist thousands of agents across multiple lines of business.

Prior to this, I spent nearly a decade at Philips Research, where I led cross-functional teams to design AI solutions for healthcare, successfully transferring over ten technologies into live products. My research contributions have resulted in over 15 granted patents, 35+ filings, and more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. I specialize in large-scale information retrieval, robust QA models, multimodal learning, and knowledge graph-driven inference.

Technically, I work end-to-end—from prototyping with Transformers and PyTorch to orchestrating model deployment with tools like MLflow, Docker, and Kubernetes. I’m equally at home fine-tuning LLMs as I am optimizing inference pipelines or guiding cross-functional AI strategy. My goal is to bridge cutting-edge research with practical impact—making AI not only powerful but useful, interpretable, and accessible.

Education

2009-2014
Ph.D., Computer Science; University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA)
2006-2008
M.S., Computer Science; University of Memphis (Tennessee, USA)
2001-2005
B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engg; JNTU (Telangana, India)

Career Highlights

  • Over 15 years of experience in Academic and Industry Research.
  • Expertise in designing, building and deploying production-ready systems utilizing Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models in Information Retrieval, Question Answering, Visual Question Answering, Knowledge Graphs, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
  • Holder of 15 granted patents in the areas of NLP and AI.
  • Filed 35 patents in the areas of NLP and AI.
  • Submitted more than 64 Invention Disclosures in the fields of NLP, ML, and AI.
  • Published more than 30 papers in reputable journals and conferences.
  • Successfully transferred 10 technologies to various Philips businesses.
  • Achieved more than 2000+ external citations as listed on Google Scholar.