Ankur P.

- 15+ years of experience in developing production-grade NLP/ML/AI solutions - Conversational Agents, RAG / Question Answering Systems, Information Extraction / Knowledge Graph Systems, Classifiers, Predictive Models etc. - Co-Creator of Llama-3.1-Storm-8B, an open-source LLM, that outperformed LLama-3.1-8B on various aspects. The model has more than 250k+ downloads in 5 months. The model is also available on Azure AI Platform (handpicked by the platform). On other platforms such as nCompass, the model usage is around 1.2 billion tokens per month. - Won (in top-3) several top-tier AI competitions including NeurIPS LLM Efficiency Challenge-2023. - Published research papers in top-tier NLP/ML/AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, SIGIR, EMNLP, LREC, COLING etc. - Worked as an AI Consultant/Advisor for start-ups such as Observe.AI (raised more than $200mn in funding), Dhee.AI, Amotion.AI, Utilize.App etc. - Worked in start-ups such as Amelia.AI (raised more than $150mn funding) and research labs such as IBM Watson. Also, founded an AI based research and consultancy start-up. - Worked on multiple fronts including research, prototyping, designing, implementation, testing and integration of new product features. - 2 years of experience in leading a team of young researchers (team size was 24). - Experience in articulating research solutions to senior executives (technical and non-technical) - 6 USPTO Applications filed - Master of Technology in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad, India