Chesta Sofat
Assistant Director at South Asian University
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolChesta Sofat is an AI-focused technology leader and strategist with a PhD in Computer Science and nearly a decade of hands-on experience building production-grade GenAI solutions across healthcare, defense, taxation, media, telecom, railways, and manufacturing. She blends research-grade NLP and social media analytics expertise—her PhD work on online radicalization and cognitive models for cyber-physical-social systems—with practical delivery of LLM-powered Q&A, RAG, agentic systems, and domain-specific classifiers. At IBM she led global AI engineering practices and built reusable industry accelerators; today she applies that product-minded engineering and strategic acumen in M&A and strategy at EY-Parthenon while teaching distributed ML as visiting faculty. Technically fluent in Python, C++, Java and NodeJS, she’s equally comfortable shaping governance, evaluation frameworks, and security-by-design for enterprise AI. Known for translating complex AI into business-ready outcomes, she pairs systems thinking with empathy and formal management training from IIM Ahmedabad to coach teams and drive measurable impact. An interesting throughline: she consistently focuses on human behavior in AI systems—turning social insights from research into safer, more explainable real-world applications.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Accelerated General Management Programme (AGMP), Accelerated General Management Programme (AGMP), Accelerated General Management Programme (AGMP), Accelerated General Management Programme (AGMP) at Indian Institute of Management AhmedabadBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at Panjab UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Punjab Engineering College10+2, non medical, 10+2, non medical at sacred heart senior secondary school
English, Hindi, Punjabi, French
Github Skills (6)
python4
data-analysis3
pandas3
data-science3
analytics3
data-analytics3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
not-so-fat/conjurer
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Python library to help you to perform magic on your data analytics project
Contributions:37 commits, 15 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years
python-librarydata-analyticsanalyticspythondata
not-so-fat/sklearn_cv_pandas
May 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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