Proyag Pal
Senior AI Engineer at Aveni
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolProyag Pal is a Senior AI Engineer based in Edinburgh with 11 years of experience focused on NLP, machine translation, and deploying LLMs for finance. Currently at Aveni he leads end-to-end development of FinLLM—covering data filtering, pre-training, fine-tuning, pruning, distillation, domain adaptation, evaluation, and RAG—to productionize models for financial services. His PhD from the University of Edinburgh and research roles (including visits to Zurich and AWS) underpin deep expertise in low-resource and document-level MT, corpus extraction, and scalable pipeline engineering. He has a strong track record building efficient MT systems and web-scale parallel corpus pipelines, plus applied work in automatic dubbing and patent-domain translation systems. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-engineer who moves models from academic rigor into robust, production-ready tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Informatics at The University of EdinburghMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 82%, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 82% at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), KolkataHigh School, Science, High School, Science at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
English, Bengali, Hindi, French, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (68)
machine-translation10
nlp10
translation10
neural-machine-translation10
encoder-decoder10
word-segmentation9
attention-mechanism9
deep-learning9
representations9
pytorch9
segmentation9
text-generation9
attention-model9
language-model8
mt8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Proyag/FlowShopProject
Nov 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
Proyag/marian-dev
Feb 2018 - Aug 2023
The training framework for marian - development repository
Contributions:42 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 7 months
phptraining
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