AI/ML scientist and seasoned leader with around 14 years of diverse experience in product development and research. Currently working as, Sr. Manager and Principal Data Scientist at State Street, spearheading Generative AI adoption to build solutions in the Financial Domain. Incubated and leading a dynamic AI Research and Innovation team as well. Research focus encompasses Generative AI in Finance, Financial Document Understanding, and Processing. Published two research papers in the IEEE Big Data Conference last year on Generative AI, and actively converting various proof-of-concepts to products. Previously, contributed as a Senior Data Scientist at Oracle, concentrating on AI/ML initiatives in IoT Analytics Cloud and as a Intern at IBM India Pvt Ltd (Research Labs) worked in team building Watson Data Platform. Commenced my career in 2009 as Software Engineer transitioned to ML Engineer and Applied Scientist. Selected for the esteemed Govt of India's Masters' fellowship program, undertaking impactful work at Heidelberg University, Germany, collaborating with Prof. Andrezejak on code snippet extraction. Achieved the highest grade and earned a selection for a Ph.D. position. Holder of an M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Guwahati, securing the department's top rank with a CGPA of 9.7/10. Engaged in the Open Source Intelligence Group led by Dr. S. Ranbir Singh, with a thesis on 'A Study on Entity Role Detection' in attack events. Academically proficient in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Explore my contributions on - Google Scholar https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=MgafX3kAAAAJ&hl=en - GitHub: https://github.com/neeleshkshukla.