Kalpit Desai
Founder at CAHO- Consortium of Accredited Health care Organisation
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKalpit Desai is a founder and AI entrepreneur based in Bengaluru who blends 15 years of post-PhD expertise in data science and machine learning with hands-on startup leadership. He leads Datakalp and Datakriti.ai, building AI-powered protocol training and data-centered solutions that target safety, health, and MSME impact. His background ranges from biomedical signal processing and particle-tracking research to industrial analytics at GE and energy disaggregation at Bidgely, giving him deep experience turning research-grade methods into production systems. Kalpit has a track record of assembling and managing distributed, multicultural teams focused on delivery and long-term research, and he contributes to healthcare–technology collaboration through CAHO. Notably, he emphasizes using “adequate” data—practical, fit-for-purpose datasets—rather than chasing idealized corpora, which guides his product and research choices. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from UNC Chapel Hill and combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial grit to deploy impactful AI solutions.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Electrical engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical engineering at Gujarat UniversityDoctor of Philosophy Biomedical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy Biomedical Engineering at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
graphing6
clip5
pytorch4
deep-learning4
api4
bert4
tesseract4
nlp4
optical-character-recognition4
python3
mbox3
openai3
uploading3
cython3
ocr3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kvdesai/wikipedia-challenge
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
plotly/plotly.r-docs
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
The documentation for Ploty's R graphing library.
Contributions:14 reviews, 56 commits, 27 PRs in 1 month
rstatsgraphingploty
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