Samta Balpande
Troy,MI
Summary
AI & Data Science Leader with 8+ years of experience building and scaling ML products in energy, retail, and enterprise tech. Proven track record of leading teams, deploying LLMs and graph AI in production, and driving $10M+ in business value through operational efficiency and innovation.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Staff AI Engineer
GE Vernova
05.2023 - Current
- Modernized Crew Dispatch Systems by leveraging AI transformer models to optimize crew allocation and ensure timely responses to grid outages.
- Developed Multi-Agent AI Frameworks for efficient issue detection from log data, leveraging generative AI (large language models) to produce comprehensive reports and implemented assistant chatbot to chat with logs leveraging RAG techniques.
- Implemented Smart Alarm Processing using graph-based AI models for extracting causal chains and performing community detection to aid grid operators in understanding alarm causality.
- Developed deep learning sequential models to accurately detect system states and predict system variables, enhancing grid monitoring capabilities.
- Created an interactive application to effectively demonstrate AI model results, allowing stakeholders to visualize predictions and system insights.
Sr Data Scientist
Staples
04.2022 - 04.2023
- Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, business analysts, and product managers, to develop and implement the pricing engine. This involved communicating complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Developed a pricing engine in python that included implementing various rules and pricing methodologies to generate accurate prices on each SKU.
- Conducted in-depth data analysis on user behavior, enhancing customer segmentation and product categorization using Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for improved inventory management.
Data Scientist
DTE Energy
05.2018 - 04.2022
- Assisted the Power Grid team in implementing a deep learning model to predict outages in the electrical grid.
- Was responsible for developing an intricate algorithm based on deep-dive statistical analysis and predictive data modeling for electrical circuits and transformers.
- Developed an integrated data management system to forecast the transformer and circuit connectivity within the power grid.
- Collaborated with team members to optimize AMI and ESRI data for a high volume of voltage interval data and assisted the project team in creating architectural diagrams to represent the data pipeline flow and endpoints of the system.
Software Engineer
Atos Syntel
08.2015 - 07.2017
- Prepared code modules for staging and conducted problem solving in BigData Arena leveraging Apache Spark.
- Utilized R studio to perform visualization and build models to conduct credit risk analysis and anomaly detection.
- Created dashboard and BI reports using Tableau and Power BI.
- Performed Customer segmentation based on their behavior or specific characteristics like age, region, income and applying Clustering algorithm to group the customer based on their similar behavior pattern.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology and Management
Oakland University
04.2019
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Pune
06.2015
Skills
- Functional: JIRA, Git, Agile, SDLC, AIOps, MLOps
- Technical: LLM, Python, Transformer model, Responsible AI, Multi task learning, Meta learning, Spark/Kafka, Machine Learning, Deep learning, Cloud Computing (AWS/Azure), Generative AI, SQL, Transfer learning, State of the art , NLP, Text Analytics, Data Engineering
Awards
NVIDIA-Certified Associate: Generative AI LLMs, XCS330 – Deep Multi-task and Meta Learning by Stanford University
Timeline
Senior Staff AI Engineer
GE Vernova
05.2023 - Current
Sr Data Scientist
Staples
04.2022 - 04.2023
Data Scientist
DTE Energy
05.2018 - 04.2022
Software Engineer
Atos Syntel
08.2015 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
University of Pune
Master of Science - Information Technology and Management
Oakland University