About me

Founder, OffNote Labs. Senior computer scientist, Ph.D., technical advisor and public speaker. - Technical advisor for medium/large companies across several industry verticals. - Extensive experience in formulating, solving, training and deploying deep learning, data science solutions at scale. - Passionate about distilling, innovating and transforming complex technology into consumable products. - Over 20 years of software engineering and ML experience across: finance, education, e-commerce, real-estate, medicine, oil and energy domains. - Ph.D. : published, presented extensively across international conferences. *Founder, OffNote Labs*. An open AI research lab for independent researchers and builders. Mentoring young, ambitious individuals learn to research and work on challenging, cutting-edge ML/AI/Systems projects. Follow and apply at @OffNote Labs. --- Independent Researcher, Engineer. Deep Learning, AI. - Academia -> Industry -> Open Research [OffNote Labs]. - Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon. Worked at IBM Research, NEC Labs. - Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QglQ194AAAAJ&hl=en Expertise: - Language Models, Prompt engineering, Multi-modal Language Programs. - Deep Learning and its multi-modal applications to Text, Speech and Vision. - Symbolic Reasoning, Constraint Solvers / Optimizers. Compilers. - Build and Break. Distill. Unify. Re-invent. Teach. - Enjoy mentoring on theoretical and practical aspects of deep learning and AI. --- Technical Consulting: - I help companies understand and maneuver through the complex, evolving AI space, build innovative teams and cutting-edge solutions, IP which maximize ROI and enable market leadership. - Experience across several verticals: finance, education, e-commerce, real-estate, medicine, oil and energy. - Expertise in neural methods for - multi-modal search, recommendations, large language models, vector indices. - object localization, segmentation, object/scene reconstruction from point clouds. - speech to text, speaker diarization. - Engaged with large, global corporations (100M+) including Fortune 500 clients. --- Research articles: - https://medium.com/@ekshakhs - https://medium.com/offnote-labs Open-source projects: http://github.com/ofnote Talks: https://youtube.com/c/offnotelabs