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Abhay Kansal

A resultsdriven AI/ML Leader with over 12 years of experience driving impactful solutions for complex, greenfield challenges across diverse sectors including Nuclear, Automotive, IoT, and Health. Passionate about building highperforming teams and strategically driving innovation to achieve key business objectives.
  • Role

    Principal ML Engineer

  • Years of Experience

    12.7 years

Skillsets

  • Edge Computing
  • Multilingual stt models
  • Time Series Analysis
  • System Design
  • Real-time Data Processing
  • Performance Optimization
  • Natural Language Processing
  • MLOps
  • Machine Learning
  • Large Language Models
  • Generative AI
  • Entity extraction
  • Energy forecasting
  • AI-driven automation
  • Distributed inference
  • Deep Learning
  • Data Processing
  • Data privacy compliance
  • Data Pipelines
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Architecture
  • Data Analysis
  • Computer Vision
  • anomaly detection

Professional Summary

12.7Years
  • Nov, 2020 - Present4 yr 10 months

    Principal ML Engineer

    CARS24 Services Private Ltd.
  • Oct, 2019 - Nov, 20201 yr 1 month

    Senior Data Scientist

    EndoVision AI
  • Nov, 2015 - Oct, 20193 yr 11 months

    Senior Data Scientist & Lead Product Manager Data Science & IoT

    Zenatix Solution Pvt. Ltd.
  • Apr, 2013 - Oct, 2013 6 months

    Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Dec, 2014 - Feb, 2015 2 months

    Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

    Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
  • Apr, 2015 - Nov, 2015 7 months

    Research Associate (Data Science)

    Indian School of Business
  • Aug, 2009 - Sep, 20112 yr 1 month

    Assistant Manager (Design Engineer R&D)

    Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Applications & Tools Known

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    transformers

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    Keras

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    Xgboost

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    OpenCV

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    Pandas

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    Dask

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    Seaborn

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    Plotly

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    snowflake

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    Jupyter

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    Docker

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    SQL

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    OLAP

Work History

12.7Years

Principal ML Engineer

CARS24 Services Private Ltd.
Nov, 2020 - Present4 yr 10 months
    Incubated and Led efforts in ML Engg, ML Ops, Computer vision along with data engineering to develop, maintain and deploy at scale. Led and expanded a cross-functional AI/ML practice spanning Data Engineering, Deep Learning, ML Engineering & MLOps. Developed and deployed solutions like intelligent document processing platforms, speech-to-text models, custom generative AI solutions, and optimized workflows for image and video processing using cutting-edge technologies.

Senior Data Scientist

EndoVision AI
Oct, 2019 - Nov, 20201 yr 1 month
    Led development and productionization of computer vision models. Implemented architectures and techniques for image classification and object detection tasks. Improved resource utilization and inference latency of models by introducing frameworks like ONNX and TensorRT. Designed real-time pipelines for secured on-premise deployments involving GPU-enabled decoding and encoding for low-latency inference.

Senior Data Scientist & Lead Product Manager Data Science & IoT

Zenatix Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Nov, 2015 - Oct, 20193 yr 11 months
    Built various machine learning and deep learning models for energy analysis and anomaly detection. Developed ETL processes and advanced analytics platforms for use in real-time queries and reporting. Designed in-house BI tools and implemented model-based optimizations for energy disaggregation, utilizing deep learning approaches.

Research Associate (Data Science)

Indian School of Business
Apr, 2015 - Nov, 2015 7 months
    Analyzed and modeled donor behavior patterns for NGOs. Studied consumption patterns for consumer goods based on demographic variations. Conducted statistical analyses and provided insights on provided datasets.

Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Dec, 2014 - Feb, 2015 2 months
    Conducted numerical studies to improve modeling techniques involving multiphysics and multiscale simulations.

Researcher (Numerical Simulation)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Apr, 2013 - Oct, 2013 6 months
    Developed coupling interfaces for multiphysics and multiscale numerical models for nuclear safety studies. Ported codes for cross-platform simulation compatibility and automation.

Assistant Manager (Design Engineer R&D)

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.
Aug, 2009 - Sep, 20112 yr 1 month
    Worked on R&D projects involving design and optimization methodologies. Performed experimental studies using advanced design techniques and statistical modeling.

Education

  • M.S. IN NUCLEAR REACTOR PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING

    ParisSud University (Paris XI) (2013)
  • M.S. IN NUCLEAR ENGINEERING

    UPC(Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya) (2012)
  • B.E. IN MANUFACTURING PROCESS AND AUTOMATION

    NSIT(Netaji Subhas Insitute of Technology) (2009)

Certifications

  • Self driving car nanodegree term1

  • The analytics edge mitx edx

  • Big data xseries berkeleyx edx