DR. JNANENDRA PRASAD SARKAR
Summary
- Results-driven thought leadership with comprehensive experience leading product and innovation expertise on emerging technology, AI/ML, LLM, and GenAI driving the full life cycle from idea to launch.
- Adept at AI methodology: ML, DL, NLP, Generative AI, and LLM (OpenAI - GPT, LLaMa, Gemma, etc.), RAG, Vector DB, and Cloud technology, including Azure Data & AI services, to drive business value and enhance customer experience.
- Recruitment, mentoring, and cross-cultural people leadership in managing large, multi-disciplinary teams of AI engineers, scientists, data scientists, software engineers, and data engineers.
- Expertise in leading AI innovation and software development, instrumental in setting up innovation culture, best practice, design pattern to increase efficiency with vision towards business growth in volume and complexity
- Stakeholder and vendor management, regular governance meeting, tracking progress & escalation
- 2 patents & 20+ International journal publications, tech talk, conference speaker (on AI/ML technology, trend & advancement)
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Product Strategist
AcuitiLabs
07.2024 - Current
- Innovation, design, and development of AI/ML and generative AI-powered cash products over AWS cloud, having robust functionalities for high-precision, seamless information extraction from payment details across diverse channels and formats, automation of invoice-to-payment reconciliation with incomplete payment references using advanced ML, integrated smart decision-making using advanced analytics, and optimized processes of early payment discounts to drive efficiency and accuracy.
- Partnering with key stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for innovation initiatives.
- Conducted research on competitors and their marketing activities.
Individual Consultant
(Break for PhD & Freelance)
09.2023 - 12.2024
- Break from full-time role to concentrate on PhD completion.
- Consulted as AI/ML Solution Strategy Advisor, designing a Generative AI solution utilizing RAG design pattern on Azure services.
- Implemented AI-driven automation for voice and text workflows, enhancing insurance client’s quote-to-fulfilment process resulting estimated 70% reduction in manual effort.
Director
NielsenIQ
03.2022 - 08.2023
- Enhanced various features for Consumer and Retail Insight products of CPG, FMCG, leveraging fastText, CNN, ResNet-50, LLM, and GenAI capability, resulting in a 20% improvement in customer satisfaction.
- Modernized AI/ML automation software: IRP (Image Recognition Platform) and CIS (Connect Intelligent Studio) on Azure cloud, resulting in a 15% boost in productivity.
- Directed roadmap of ML, NLP, Generative AI, cloud-based Azure AI, and data services fostering innovation and architectural vision.
- Instrumental in setting up the applied AI/ML Innovation lab/CoE to address problems scientifically, to increase efficiency by approximately 40%, with a vision towards business growth in volume and business complexity.
- Collaboration with key stakeholders, including sales, marketing, and branding teams, to define product strategy, vision, and roadmap to translate objectives into customer-centric actions.
Associate Director
LTIMindtree
05.2018 - 01.2022
- Leadership of AI research and developed a proprietary AIOps product with capabilities such as alert noise suppression, incident clustering and classification, guided ticket resolution, and auto healing of standard incidents with an alert volume reduction ability of approximately 90%, and MTTR improvement of approximately 45%.
- Developed and patented an unsupervised ML algorithm that is used to develop a proprietary document intelligence product with functionalities to mine data from a variety of structured and unstructured documents, auto entity management with auto-tagging, cataloging, search, and metadata information recommendations, auto-statistics, and persona-specific recommendations reducing data discovery time by 80%.
- Instrumental in setting up the applied AI/ML innovation lab, crafted best practices and design patterns.
Asst. General Manager
Vodafone
02.2015 - 04.2018
- Managed large team of data scientist, data engineer, software engineer, to design and deliver products/solutions for Customer 360, Churn, Dynamic Air Time offer, Network 360, Anomaly detection in radio network, preventive maintenance of equipment, predict changes in network traffic leveraging Data Science & ML methods
- Leadership of R&D in AI & Data Science, Cloud technology application, rationalizing Ent. Data Architecture, implementation of Data Governance, process automation with vision towards business growth in volume and complexity
- Vendor & stakeholder management to ensure cost-effectiveness aligning goal of the organization
- Thought leadership to explore data monetization, AI/ML driven business opportunity, modernizing eco system for AI/ML & data science and established best practice, standard & policy
Associate Consultant
TCS
03.2001 - 01.2015
- Successfully Delivered Data science & ML based model for customer tailored solution of Customer Analytics, Product Analytics, event correlation, sentiment analysis, topic modelling, marketing channel analytics, HR analytics, Segmentation, Forecasting, Recommendation, Predictive Maintenance to fortune 500 customers
- Design and development of ATM (Automated Teller Machine) interface & backend module within core banking software
Education
Ph.D. - Computer Science & Engineering (Topic On AI)
Jadavpur University
01-2024
Master of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering
Jadavpur University
01-2013
B.Tech - Computer Science & Technology
Kalyani Govt. Engg. College
01-2000
Skills
- Machine Learning (Supervised and Unsupervised)
- Deep Learning (CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformer)
- NLP (NLTK, SpaCy, BERT, fastText, NER)
- GenAI (LLM: GPT-35/4o, LLaMa 31, RAG, VectorDB, Prompt Engineering)
- Cloud technology: Azure, AWS
AREA OF EXPERTISE
- AI/ML, GenAI, LLM
- Leadership & Management
- Innovation, R&D
- Product Development
- Data Science & Analytics
RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
Research Publications & Patents [click URLs →]: Google Scholar[h-index: 9], DBLP Library, Research Gate
PATENTS
- System And Method for Decision Driven Hybrid Text Clustering (US11537647B2)
- Cognitive Model Determining Alerts Generated in a System (US11411835B2)
CONTINUOUS LEARNING
- Scaling Generative AI: Building a Strategy for Adoption and Expansion [LinkedIn Learning]
- Becoming an AI-First Product Leader [Project Management Institute (PMI)]
- Data-Driven Decision-Making for Business Professionals [International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)]
- Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy: Case Studies [LinkedIn Learning]
- Artificial Intelligence for Business Leaders [LinkedIn Learning]
- LangChain for LLM application development [DeepLearning.ai]
- ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developer [DeepLearning.ai]
- Prompt Engineering with LLaMa2 [DeepLearning.ai]
- Machine Learning to Deep Learning [IISR, ISRO]
VOLUNTARY ACTIVITY
- Speaker at different forums & Conf.
- Guest lecture at college & universities
- External guide of B.Tech/M.Tech proj.
- Peer reviewer of various International Journal Publications such as Elsevier, IEEE, Springer, Frontiers etc.
Accomplishments
- Patented Innovation :
System And Method for Decision Driven Hybrid Text Clustering (US11537647B2)
Cognitive Model Determining Alerts Generated in a System (US11411835B2)
- Tranformative Market Innovations: Launched AIOps and Data Intelligence products, achieving significant market impact
- Research Publication : 20+ publications in international journals and conferences.
- Supervised team of 200+ people of Cross-functional, multi-culture at multi location.
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkWork Location
RemoteHybridOn-SiteImportant To Me
Work-life balanceCareer advancementCompany CultureFlexible work hoursWork from home optionTimeline
Product Strategist
AcuitiLabs
07.2024 - Current
Individual Consultant
(Break for PhD & Freelance)
09.2023 - 12.2024
Director
NielsenIQ
03.2022 - 08.2023
Associate Director
LTIMindtree
05.2018 - 01.2022
Asst. General Manager
Vodafone
02.2015 - 04.2018
Associate Consultant
TCS
03.2001 - 01.2015
Ph.D. - Computer Science & Engineering (Topic On AI)
Jadavpur University
Master of Engineering - Computer Science & Engineering
Jadavpur University
B.Tech - Computer Science & Technology
Kalyani Govt. Engg. College
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