Tushar Karayil
Research Scientist (GenAI) at Zscaler
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolTushar Karayil is a Research Scientist specializing in GenAI with a PhD in Machine Learning/Deep Learning and a decade of experience building production-ready ML systems across cybersecurity, finance, and research institutes. Currently leading ML efforts at Zscaler, he focuses on NLP-driven security solutions while mentoring data science teams and contributing to publications and patents. His background spans deep research at DFKI, freelance GenAI consulting, and systems-level engineering roles at Novell and IBM, giving him rare fluency from low-level C/C++ systems to cloud-native PyTorch deployments. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he has delivered large-scale data analysis, topic mining, and cloud ML architectures using Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP/AWS. Based in Hyderabad, he blends rigorous academic training with practical product impact, often translating advanced NLP research into deployable cybersecurity features.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning/Deep Learning at University of KaiserslauternBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Calicut
English, German
Github Skills (14)
network-graph7
social-network-analysis6
d3js6
network-visualization6
react5
reinforcement-learning5
deep-learning5
pytorch5
javascript4
visualization4
graph4
graph-drawing3
svg3
interactive2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tusharkr/mlops
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
Examples of CI/CD for MLOps
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
tusharkr/reinforcement-learning
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
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