Ankan Dutta
Senior Chief Engineer ( AI Research ) at upGrad
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnkan Dutta is a senior AI research leader with 11 years of experience designing and deploying deep learning and generative AI solutions across enterprise and product settings. Currently Senior Chief Engineer at Samsung R&D Bangalore, he has led end-to-end initiatives—from fine-tuning LLMs (QLoRA/LoRA on Mistral, Llama, Qwen, Phi) and architecting reasoning agents to building document understanding, semantic search, and data-quality agents in production. He combines strong research instincts with product focus, having shipped platforms like Sceptre, Monal, and MAX while mentoring teams and supervising master's theses. Comfortable across the stack (model pre-training, inference pipelines, evaluation metrics and API integrations), he also has a track record in recommender systems, computer vision, and NLP for high-impact clients including Mercedes-Benz and Societe Generale. Based in Bengaluru, he blends academic rigor (M.Tech) with practical engineering to turn complex AI research into reliable, explainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science, Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Computer Science at Nirma UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
apache-spark6
big-data6
pyspark6
schema6
java6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ankancode/Python-with-scikit-learn
Jun 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
ankancode/bundle
Jun 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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