Param Kulkarni
Sr AI Manager, Ads AI at LinkedIn
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolParam Kulkarni is a seasoned AI leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling end-to-end ML systems across ads, healthcare, public safety, and startup products. Currently Sr AI Manager for Ads AI at LinkedIn, he leads GAI-driven ad creation and personalization while previously directing responsible multimodal LLM efforts and privacy-preserving GenAI at Axon. His career mixes hands-on research and product leadership—from patented clinical deep learning at NYU Langone to co-founding and scaling healthtech startups that delivered measurable mental health outcomes. He’s fluent across language, voice, video, biometrics, tabular and time-series data, and has shipped production use cases in computer vision, NLP, RL, forecasting, search, and recommendations. A certified Health and Wellness Coach, he brings a rare blend of clinical empathy and technical rigor that informs privacy-first, safety-focused AI. Based in the NYC area, Param is known for turning research-grade models into scalable, operational systems and for establishing company-wide evaluation and privacy practices.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at University of HoustonRunway postdoc @ Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute - Cornell Tech, Runway postdoc @ Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute - Cornell Tech at Cornell UniversityB.E Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, B.E Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (19)
dimensions8
image-analysis7
medical-imaging6
reproducible-research6
open-science6
cpp5
itk5
segmentation5
architecture5
python5
image-processing5
caffe4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
computer-vision4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
hocheung20/farsight
Sep 2011 - Feb 2013
Contributions:86 commits in 1 year 5 months
NVIDIA/DIGITS
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Deep Learning GPU Training System
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
deep-learninggputorchmachine-learningtraining
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