Sagar Kurandwad
Head Of Artificial Intelligence at SpicyChat.AI
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSagar Kurandwad is an AI leader with nearly a decade of industry experience and an MS in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, currently serving as Head of Artificial Intelligence at SpicyChat.AI. He has spearheaded ML roadmaps and shipped LLM- and RLHF-powered agents across defence, aviation, energy, emergency response, and media, blending research rigour with product delivery. His work spans generative AI, NLP, computer vision and deep reinforcement learning, and includes innovations like dimensionality-aware attention and energy-based parameter initialization. He built CogmentVerse, a human-in-the-loop and multi-agent RL research platform, and holds multiple patents and publications, including an Outstanding Paper Award for wind power integration. Known as a pragmatic academic, he frequently speaks and teaches on RLHF and practical AI deployment, translating complex algorithms into deployable systems for real-world, safety-critical domains.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science (MS) Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at B.V.B CET
English, Hindi, Kannada, Odia
Github Skills (6)
reinforcement-learning7
actor7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
agent6
q-learning6
rlhf3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sagarkurandwad/Spherical-X-Means
Dec 2017 - Jun 2019
Spherical version of XMeans
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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sagarkurandwad/sagarkurandwad.github.io
Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:295 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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