Amol Kelkar
Verified Expert in Engineering
Deep Neural Networks Developer
Amol is a seasoned technologist with 18 years of experience. He has worked in artificial intelligence, as a computational neuroscience research scientist, as a machine learning engineer, CTO, entrepreneur, vice president of engineering, and product strategist. He has invented eight patents and written two publications in his field. Amol has also founded, and participated in several startups.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Jupyter, Git, PyTorch, Python
The most amazing...
...machine learning algorithm I've developed learns disentangled representations using brain-like laterally connected neurons.
Work Experience
Head of AI R&D
Got It AI
- Led AI R&D efforts at Got It AI, a conversational AI company that offers an award-winning, state-of-the-art platform for building fluid, conversational task-oriented virtual agents.
- Envisioned, designed, and built Progressive Flow Discovery, the technology behind Got It AI's products for automated conversational flow discovery from historical conversational logs. This system uses large language models (LLMs) like Bert.
- Envisioned, designed, and built Article Bot, a fluid conversational interface over a set of articles/knowledge bases. This technology uses generative deep learning models.
- Led a team of ML engineers, product engineers, and applied ML scientists.
Founder and AI Research Scientist
i3ai.org
- Founded a state-of-the-art machine learning research organization. He is the lead researcher.
- Utilized novel methods for reinforcement learning and representation learning.
CTO
Office Space
- Managed software development, web infrastructure, and product.
- Built a sophisticated ETL infrastructure to synthesize data from various semi-structured data sources with my team. The web application provides a listings discovery and communication platform used by more than 100,000 users each month.
- Grew the Office Space listing count by ten times, and leads by 12 times the previous amount.
Director of Technology
King of the Web
- Ran the technology, engineering, and web operations.
- Developed seven releases from prototype to public beta in less than five months.
- Hired and managed an excellent engineering team.
- Contributed to product definition and strategy.
Founder and CEO
Aflatune
- Oversaw recruiting and managing technical and marketing resources, business development, and investor relations. Aflatune was a music streaming service with development offices in the US and India.
- Aflatune used state-of-the-art machine learning techniques for music recommendations and scalable architecture for the streaming platform.
Software Engineer
Microsoft, Corp.
- Developed products and services such as Internet Explorer, NetDocs, InfoPath, Office, and Windows Live (Bing).
- Invented and developed eight patents.
- Developed software using .NET and C#.
- Interviewed and mentored software engineers.
Experience
OfficeSpace.com
http://officespace.comSkills
Languages
Ruby, Python, Python 3, C#, CSS, JavaScript
Frameworks
Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby on Rails 4
Libraries/APIs
PyTorch, Pandas, jQuery, React
Other
Machine Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Image Processing, Deep Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Clustering, System Architecture, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT)
Tools
Git, Jupyter
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
Redis, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computational Neuroscience
University of Texas at Austin - Austin, Texas, USA
Certifications
Deep learning by Nando de Freitas
Oxford
Reinforcement Learning by David Silver
DeepMind