Muthu C
Principal Engineer at Interactly.ai
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMuthu C is a Principal Engineer and ML/NLP leader with 14 years of academic and industry experience, including a PhD in Computer Science focused on conversational AI and multiparty dialogues. He builds end-to-end Generative AI products—training SoTA models, creating datasets like CL-SciSumm, and productionizing LLMs and AI agents deployed as web services and device integrations. His background spans Alexa NLU, AWS Comprehend NLG, startups (founder and early AI hire), and leading foundation-model finetuning programs for enterprise clients. He routinely publishes at top-tier NLP venues, co-organizes community shared tasks and workshops, and serves as an Action Editor for ACL Rolling Reviews. Notably, he has hands-on experience fine-tuning compact LLMs for high-throughput, real-world tasks (e.g., PII redaction at scale) and advising early-stage founders on GenAI product strategy. Based in San Jose, he combines deep research chops with pragmatic system-building for mission-critical applications in healthcare, voice assistants, and document intelligence.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science and Engineering, BE Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University ChennaiHigher Secondary / Junior College Computer Science Mathematics Physics Chemistry, Higher Secondary / Junior College Computer Science Mathematics Physics Chemistry at Sri Sankara Vidyalaya, Tambaram, Chennai, IndiaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Hindi, French, Tamil
Github Skills (81)
pii10
taxonomy10
annotations10
lda10
fasttext10
computational-linguistics10
crf10
corpus10
intervention10
nlp10
oop10
string-parsing10
summarization10
classification10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raymondhs/Panda-Delights
Oct 2014 - Jun 2017
Contributions:17 commits, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
cmkumar87/GA-Load-Distribution
May 2012 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 1 push in 6 years 6 months
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