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Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar

Cupertino,CA

Summary

Communicative Research Scientist proficient in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, GenAI. Understand the whole workflow of the AI projects, pitfalls and space available to AI engineers for complete customer satisfaction, not through university education but practical hands-on Experience and multiple Failures with the most challenging projects.

Experience with the over-the-top expectations of the customers from AI processes and AI based automation.

Research Scientist for AI/ML with an immense passion for AI and sincerely working towards making AI systems more Explainable and more Interpretable.. Serving in a government space agency (ISRO) for last 10 years and leading multiple interdisciplinary teams from government bodies, research organizations and setting up international cooperation for space projects of global importance, particularly AI ethics,AI Safety and AI Alignment.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scientist-SE

U R Rao Satellite Centre, URSC-ISRO, India
06.2021 - Current
  • Scientist with an immense passion for AI and sincerely working towards making AI systems more explainable and more dextrous
  • Developed enterprise-level solution that has cognitive agent called GYAAN, which uses best open-source LLM models and used to increase productivity of employees.
  • Applied RAG, semantic search optimizations, established a vectorDB and prompt-engineering for the agents.
  • As a hobby project and done to test the cognition capabilities of LLM based Agents, I Used open-source LLMs to devlop an AI Astrologer that uses derives its knowledge from ancient texts , andanalyses the questions asked by users. It then gives a reply based on the AI Ethics,safety and AI alignment principles.
  • Used LangChain to create the Thought chains for LLMs.
  • Particularly interested in GenAI and its capabilities and applications.
  • Evaluated and implemented GenAI technologies and developed techniques to improve quality and robustness of "text to task".
  • Innovative solution developed in sematic search for voluminous documents to make RAG more effective in enterprise settings.
  • Evaluated and Implemented techniques for Latent Space Theory for Emergent Abilities in Large Language Models
  • Implemented quality control measures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of experimental results. Guardrails for AI models for AI alignment ,AI ethics and AI safety.
  • Serving in a government space agency (ISRO) for last 10 years and leading multiple interdisciplinary teams from government bodies, research organizations and setting up international cooperation for space projects of global importance.

Scientist-SD

U R Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO, India
06.2018 - 12.2018
  • Working with diverse Govt Organizations for social benefits from Space Missions - All India Surgeons Association, NIMHANS, IISc-Bangalore. -Leading Research Projects with academia institutions - IISc, IIT Kanpur, IIST Trivendrum. -Member of International collaborations for Space Based Energy - NASA-CALTECH- IIST-ISRO. -Cooperation and coordination with numerous personnel as Project Manager of space missions- X POSAT, IDRSS.
  • Team Lead for the project Automation of crack detection in solar cells for satellites.
  • Performed complex troubleshooting and assisted in leading initiatives to solve challenging explainability and interpretability problems with ML models. Resukted in a novel way to analyse the vision models based on the mathematical model of human vision.
  • Team Leader for project on Integrated Health Monitoring and Management for Satellite Power Systems for medical application for human space flight.
  • Developed innovative research methodologies for improved data collection and analysis.
  • Team Leader for Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Systems for Space at URSC, ISRO, India. Led cross-functional team collaborations to drive innovation and solve complex scientific problems entailing in space missions.
  • Lead Researcher for alternative power sources for space missions project Thermoelectric generators for Space Power systems like Energy systems for remote areas, Defense applications, Power for remote science projects.
  • Trained new employees on areas of technical expertise and compliance issues relevant to lab setting.
  • Conducted experiments in laboratory environment for product development purposes.
  • Mentored junior scientists and provided guidance on their career development and research projects.
  • Published multiple peer-reviewed articles, establishing expertise in the field of scientific study.
  • Simultaneously managed several complex projects, meeting all pertinent milestones.
  • Presented research findings at national and international conferences, promoting knowledge sharing among peers.

Intern

Indian Institute Of Technology, IIT Bombay, India
01.2014 - 05.2015
  • Designed and developed a novel (now patented) MEMS sensor for Hydrogen detection at ppb levels for ISRO under Ministry of Electronics and IT for the government of India.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - AI And Robotics (Avionics)

Indian Institute of Space Science &Technology (IIST), India
01.2014

AISSCE -

01.2009

AISSE -

01.2007

Skills

  • Large Language Models (LLM)
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Reinforcement / Imitation Learning
  • Transformers / Multihead attention mechanisms
  • Tensorflow
  • Genetic Algorithm
  • Evolutionary Search
  • MatLab
  • Convex Optimisation
  • MLOps
  • Scientific Writing
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Communication skills
  • Cognitive agents
  • UGNX
  • MEMS Technology
  • C / C
  • Data Science
  • CNNs / DNNs / LSTM
  • COMSOL
  • Formal Logics
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • LangChain
  • Research and experiments
  • Safety processes and procedures
  • Data Analytics
  • Research methods
  • Peer Reviews
  • Machine Learning
  • Critical Thinking
  • Effective Multitasking
  • Self-Directed and Motivated
  • Strong Work Ethic
  • Report Preparation
  • Research Planning
  • Research coordination
  • Technical consulting
  • Database Design
  • Grant Writing
  • Data Modeling

Accomplishments

  • Awarded Most Innovative Project Award by Indian National Academy Of Engineering
  • Collaborated with team of NASA-Caltech in the development of ISRO.
  • Young Scientist Award by Indian Space Research Organization
  • Achieved Automation by introducing ELSIS an AI software for inspection tasks.
  • Collaborated with team of four in the development of Integrated Satellite Health Monitoring Systems which collaborates with team across disciplines.

Certification

  • Structured training for Senior Scientists-ISRO
  • Course on Artificial Intelligence-IIT Madras
  • Hands-on workshop on AI-NVIDIA 2016
  • AI hands-on proficiency workshop-CII 2019
  • Course on Sociology-IIT Madras

Personal Information

Title: Scientist-SE

Awards

  • Innovative Young Scientist Award - ISRO 2017
  • Innovative Student Project Award - INAE 2014
  • Fully-funded Scholarship for B.Tech course
  • Campus selection for Scientist position in ISRO

Publications

  • Multihead Self-attention and LSTM for Spacecraft Telemetry Anomaly Detection, S. Gundawar, N. Kumar, P. Yash, A. K. Singh and M. Deepan, Advanced Computing: 11th International Conference IACC 2021 Msida Malta, 18-19, 2021
  • Deep learning-based automatic micro-crack inspection in space-grade solar cells, Gundawar S, Kumar N, Meetei NR, Krishna Priya G, Puthanveetil SE, Sankaran M, Advances in Small Satellite Technologies. Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Small Satellites. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (LNME), 293, 2020
  • Performance Analysis and Optimization of a SnSe-Based Thermoelectric Generator, Bhattacharya, M.; Ranjan, M.; Kumar, N.; Maiti, T., ACS Appl. Energy Mater., 4, 8211–8219, 2021
  • Polymer/ceramic MEMS: A nanomechanical sensor platform with low temperature high gauge factor ITO for electromechanical transduction, Tina B., Anjana C., Kumar N., Seena V., J Microelectromech Syst, 30, 1, 116-125, 2020

Affiliations

  • Society of Small Satellites

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
German
Limited Working
Hindi
Native or Bilingual

Timeline

Scientist-SE

U R Rao Satellite Centre, URSC-ISRO, India
06.2021 - Current

Scientist-SD

U R Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO, India
06.2018 - 12.2018

Intern

Indian Institute Of Technology, IIT Bombay, India
01.2014 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Technology - AI And Robotics (Avionics)

Indian Institute of Space Science &Technology (IIST), India

AISSCE -

AISSE -

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