Summary
Kuntal Pal is an Applied AI/ML researcher and engineer with 8 years of industry and academic experience, currently working as a Senior Associate on applied AI/ML at JPMorgan Chase while completing a PhD in NLP at Arizona State University. His research focuses on natural language understanding and reasoning—information extraction, open-book question answering, and retrieval augmented methods—applied across cybersecurity, biomedical, and numerical reasoning domains. He has built transformer-based QA and tag-suggestion systems during a Microsoft research internship and has hands-on production experience developing SDKs, compilers, and testing infrastructure for networking chips earlier in his career. A seasoned educator, he mentored over a dozen master’s teams and taught foundational programming and NLP courses, combining research depth with practical teaching and engineering delivery. Known for bridging external knowledge sources and commonsense reasoning into NLP pipelines, he seeks internships that push state-of-the-art performance toward deployable systems. Based in Plano, Texas, he pairs rigorous academic credentials (PhD GPA 3.97/4.00) with a track record of translating research into real-world products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), 3.97/4.00, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science (Natural Language Processing), 3.97/4.00 at Arizona State University
Science, Science at New Alipore Multipurpose High School
Nava Nalanda High School
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, 8.53/10, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, 8.53/10 at Jadavpur University
Master's degree, Computer Science (Information Security), 8.8/10, Master's degree, Computer Science (Information Security), 8.8/10 at National Institute of Technology Calicut
English, Bengali, Hindi