Hi there, I'm Rahul Kumar 👋

Sr. AI Engineer | Researcher | IIT Bhubaneswar Alum

I am a Data Scientist and AI Engineer with 5 years of experience bridging the gap between academic research and production-grade systems. My work spans healthcare and e-commerce, focusing on LLMs, RAG, and Ranking Systems.

• 📍 Location: Bengaluru, India
• 🎓 Education: B.Tech (Hons) CSE, IIT Bhubaneswar (GPA: 9.28/10)
• 📫 Contact: rahulkr31.01@gmail.com | LinkedIn

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🛠️ Technical Arsenal

Languages: Python, C++, JavaScript AI/ML: LLMs (Llama, GPT), RAG, Deep RL, Computer Vision (U-Net), LangChain, HuggingFace Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS (Sagemaker, EC2), MLFlow, Vector DBs (Chroma, Mongo)

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👨‍💻 For Engineering Managers (Industry Experience)

Current: Sr. AI Engineer @ Makro Pro

• Revenue Impact: Optimized search/carousel models delivering 31% revenue uplift and 56% increase in basket adds.
• GenAI at Scale: Led development of LLM-LightRanker, a multilingual reranking system reducing exposure bias by 42%.
• Pipeline: Built anomaly detection pipelines identifying 300+ customer and 90+ product anomalies.

Previous: Sr. AI Engineer @ GE HealthCare

• RAG Implementation: Designed a RAG + LLM stack for internal documentation, fine-tuning Llama-3 on 5k+ pairs to achieve 6x response efficiency.
• Optimization: Delivered 50% improvement in DL Recon CT workflow throughput via GPU optimization.

🔬 For Admissions & Research (Academic Profile)

Research Focus: Deep Learning, NLP, Anomaly Detection, and Reinforcement Learning.

Key Publications (8+ Total, 400+ Citations)

• 📄 LLM-LightRanker: Multi-Objective Reranking via LLM Distillation (ACM RecSys '25)
• 📄 Automated Pericardium-Segmentation using Attention-based CNN (SPIE Medical Imaging '24)
• 📄 Robust Adaptive Cloud Intrusion Detection System (11th SPACE 2020)

Patents

• Filed: A Lightweight, Language-Aware Phonetic BK-Tree for Multilingual Query Correction.

💡 For Founders & Innovators (Startup Projects)

Entrepreneurial Experience

• Founding Engineer, Vasitars Pvt. Ltd: Prototyped IoT LPG distribution systems; raised ₹7 Lakhs in initial funding.
• MoSahay Initiative: Built a web portal connecting migrant laborers with job seekers during critical shortages.

Awards & Honors

• 🏆 Winner: Grand India IoT Innovation Challenge (2018)
• 🏆 Gold Prize: Inter-IIT Techmeet (2019)
• 🏅 Recipient: NRDC Budding Innovators Award (2019)