Summary
Barathi Balakrishnan is a Head of Product Development and AI technologist with eight years of hands-on experience building ML stacks and deploying scalable NLP, speech, and vision solutions across BFSI, healthcare, manufacturing and logistics. She blends deep research credentials—60+ publications, leadership in international shared tasks, and a PhD research scholar background—with product delivery, having led R&D teams at RBG.AI and driven AI transformation at Arnekt. Comfortable across the full ML lifecycle, she evolved from classical NLP and HMM/GMM techniques to state-of-the-art transformer architectures and distributed deployment patterns. As an adjunct faculty and mentor she translates cutting-edge research into pragmatic teaching and product features, and maintains a strong focus on structuring unstructured text, image, and voice data. Based in Tamil Nadu, she pairs a cognitive science mindset with engineering rigor to turn complex AI research into industry-ready services.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Dropped, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research, Dropped at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore
Engineer’s Degree, Electronic and Communications Engineering, First Class, Engineer’s Degree, Electronic and Communications Engineering, First Class at CSI College of Engineering, Ketti, Ooty, The Nilgiris
English, Tamil, Malayalam