Industry Speakers

Topic The Rise of Language Models: Opportunities and Challenges for the Job Market in India


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Sharada Acharya

Machine Learning Engineer , YouTube, Google

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Dipinder Sekhon

Founder, Kites.ai

Dipinder is a Technopreneur (founder of iKites.ai, KritiKal Solutions). He completed B.Tech and M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi (1997-2002) and a Master of Public Affairs (MPA - Public and Economic Policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences (LSE) and Sciences-Po Paris (2007-2009). He is currently committed to building iKITES (Knowledge Innovation and Technology EcoSystem), focusing on Computer Vision and AI Innovation for Health, Automotive and other domains.


Sharada Acharya

Machine Learning Engineer , YouTube, Google

Sharada studied Computer Science and Machine Learning at Columbia University. Now a Machine Learning Engineer at Google, she is passionate about using AI for social good. Her career began at Microsoft, developing early machine learning models for Office 365 security. She now specializes in fine-tuning and evaluating the latest advancements in language models, from early models like BERT to today's LLMs, to identify and mitigate harmful content on YouTube, with a particular focus on hate speech, misinformation, and bullying.

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Raghavan Muthuregunathan <<<<<<< HEAD

Senior Engineering Manager, Linkedin

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Senior Engineering Manager, Linkedin

Raghavan, a senior engineering manager at LinkedIn, is leading the search AI team that powers the global typeahead box and the subsequent landing page on LinkedIn, the LinkedIn premium Gen AI assistant. He is a volunteer for the Apache Solr, GenAIcommons.org (co leading multiple streams), and UN disaster management AI-4-Good focus group.

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Pranjul Yadav <<<<<<< HEAD

Machine Learning Lead, Google


Anuj Phadke

Senior Software Engineer, Netflix

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Machine Learning Lead, Google

Pranjul Yadav completed his B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from University of Minnesota with a focus on Machine Learning. Post Ph.D. Pranjul worked at Criteo Research (2017-2020) on transfer learning and currently at Google (Senior Engineer - Machine Learning). Pranjul's interest lies in Data Mining, Machine Learning and its applications in E-commerce and Healthcare. Pranjul has extensively published at leading conferences such as SDM, IEEE, BIGDATA, ICDM, RECSYS, AMIA, ICMLA, ICHI.


Animesh Nayan

Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Google

Animesh Nayan is founder of popular YouTube channel mycodeschool to teach computer science and currently works on improving core search ranking algorithms at Google.

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