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Vatsal Desai

@vatsaldesai

Senior Staff Data Scientist at InfoDesk

Surat, India

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vatsaldin/

InfoDeskVeer Narmad South Gujarat University

Vatsal Desai is a Senior Staff Data Scientist with over 18 years of experience in the IT industry, specializing in Natural Language Processing and AI technologies. He currently leads a team of AI developers at InfoDesk, focusing on generative AI, text classification, and NER techniques for global clients. Vatsal has a proven track record in designing end-to-end machine learning systems and implementing advanced RAG and T5 models.

Experience

Senior Staff Data Scientist

InfoDesk

Full Time•Oct 2021 - Present•Remote

Led and mentored a team of four Junior AI Developers. Performed detailed vector embedding model analysis and comparison of vector databases. Conducted experiments for Text Summarization using T5 and PEFT/LORA. Designed and developed the Auto Newsletter and AskWideNarrow question-answering system. Developed classification solutions for AstraZeneca using LDA and BERTTOPIC.

Deep Learning and Computer Vision Engineer

Learning Dollars Talent

•Jul 2019 - Oct 2021•Remote

Worked on WriteWise (BERT-based NLP), Ingage Solutions (Real-Time Meeting Analysis), and AI Buddy (Personal Assistant).

CTO

MVIX

•May 2013 - Jun 2021•Surat

Progressed from Product Development Lead to CTO.

Tech Lead

Sterlite Tech (Elite Core)

•Oct 2012 - Mar 2013•Ahmedabad

Team Lead

Accenture

•Nov 2007 - Oct 2012•Mumbai

Progressed from Senior Programmer to Senior Software Engineer to Team Lead.

Senior Programmer

Reliance

•Aug 2005 - Oct 2007•Hazira, Surat

Education

Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

M.Sc.

Information Technology

Jan 2005

Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

B.Sc.

Information Technology

Jan 2003

Licenses & Certifications

Generative AI with Large Language Models

Issued: Jan 2023

Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera

Issued: Jan 2019

Hands-On Chatbot and Conversational UI Development

Denis Rothman

Issued: Jan 2018

Skills

SBERT
Sentence Embeddings
Vector Database
Knowledge Graph
neo4j
Langchain
llamaindex
LLMs
Transformers
BERT
Prompt Engineering
Pinecone
ElasticSearch
Generative AI
Q/A
Summarization
Pytorch
Python
FastAPI
Docker
AWS
Natural Language Generation
Natural Language Understanding
Natural Language Processing
Clustering
Topic Modelling
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Predictive Analysis