Sayantan Das
Senior Data Scientist, Generative AI Specialist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolSayantan Das is a Senior Data Scientist and Generative AI specialist with eight years of hands-on experience building and deploying advanced ML and generative models across industry and research. Currently at Manulife, he designs LLM-driven solutions for Group Benefits while mentoring teams and advising executives on AI modernization. His background spans applied research—deepfake detection with publications in top venues and independent work at ETH Zürich—to product-focused engineering, including reinforcement finetuning, diffusion-model pipelines for media clients, and cloud-native deployments. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has built end-to-end AI systems for startups and enterprises and contributed to academic and industry collaborations that surface non-obvious risks and opportunities in generative AI.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.39, Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.39 at West Bengal University of Technology, KolkataMaster of Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence, 4.0, Master of Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence, 4.0 at Queen's University
Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ucalyptus/kornia
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch
Contributions:21 PRs, 39 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
pytorchdifferentiablevisiondeep-learningcomputer-vision
ucalyptus/awesome-fastai
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Curated lists of fastai resources: blog posts, twitter threads etc.
Contributions:22 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 months
pythonblog-postslistsfastaithreads
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