About
Hi. I'm Mukesh, Senior AI Scientist
- I design, build machine learning products.
- Write, speak, and prototype on ideas in machine learning, artificial intelligence and LLMs.
- Curate papers, guides on applying machine learning effectively
- Products spanning Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI.
10+patents in Data and AI
15+DS/AI products shipped
Book Reviewer- Manning Publications
Experience
Senior D/AI Scientist & Researcher
November 2023 — Present
IBM Data and AI
- Search relevancy in AI-aided information retrieval
Senior D/AI Scientist
February 2022 — November 2023
Watsonx Data and AI — IBM
- Built Unreal Data, a domain-agnostic engine for generating synthetic 2D data using reward-maximization (Reinforcement Learning) — recipient of IBM's Hyper Blue program grant
- Owned the AI/ML engine (DQN algorithm, TF2) and MDP environment design for tabular data, extending the OpenAI Gym environment
- Ran performance testing for the Ray distributed framework on AWS
Senior Data Scientist — Insurance Fraud
November 2020 — February 2022
IBM Data and AI
- Predicted insurance fraud (Auto, Property Casualty, Workers' Compensation) using tabular and unstructured data
- Owned feature engineering, risk modelling, hypothesis testing, and model explainability (SHAP)
- Productionized pipelines and models using PySpark, spark-nlp, and IBM CP4D
Data Scientist — Financial Crimes Insights
March 2018 — November 2020
IBM Data and AI — India Software Labs
- Designed and developed an entity resolution framework for detecting financial crimes using probabilistic matching
- Built the foundation for AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and Surveillance Insights analytics
- Performance-tuned watchlist processing on the HDP platform
Part-time Computer Vision Internship
May 2018 — February 2019
Inkers Technology
- Worked on image classification, segmentation, and object detection using ResNet, YOLO, and GANs
Solution Architect — Advanced Analytics
January 2016 — March 2018
IBM IoT — India Software Labs
- Architected video analytics for perimeter intrusion detection at a major steel plant
- Architected a sensor-driven flood forecast and early warning system for a South-East Asian government
- Led technical consulting across Australia, EU, Middle East, South-East Asia, and the US
Associate Managing Consultant / Senior Consultant
August 2011 — December 2015
IBM India Software Labs
- Design and development lead — merge ownership, defect tracking, and release ownership
Projects
Unreal Data
A domain-agnostic engine for generating synthetic 2D data using reward-maximization (Reinforcement Learning) to mimic realistic decision-making. Recipient of IBM's Hyper Blue program grant.
Reinforcement Learning
DQN
TensorFlow
AWS
Entity Resolution Framework for Financial Crimes
Probabilistic matching system for finding obvious and non-obvious relationships between records, powering AML and Surveillance Insights analytics at IBM.
PySpark
HDFS
HBase
NLP
Flood Forecast & Early Warning System
Sensor-driven flood prediction and early warning system architected for a South-East Asian government, integrating water level, rainfall, video, and GIS/RADAR data.
GIS
Java
IoT
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
2022 — 2024
Master of Technology (MTech), Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Tech Stack
Languages
Python
Java
ML / Deep Learning
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
XGBoost
SHAP
NLP
spaCy
NLTK
spark-nlp
Word2Vec
GloVe
TF-IDF
Data Engineering
PySpark
Kafka
HDFS
HBase
Db2
Infrastructure
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
IBM CP4D
Credentials
10+
Patents
5
Awards
15+
Products shipped
- Reinforcement Learning for Business — Technical ReviewerManning Publications Co. — 2025 — Present
- System and Method to Optimize Processing Pipeline for Key Performance IndicatorsIBM Patent · P202007133US01
- Override Process in Data Analytics Processing in Risk NetworksIBM Patent · P202007134US01
- System and Method to Replay Suspicious Activity Detection Pipeline in Risk NetworksIBM Patent · P202007142US01
- Data-Driven Automated Model Impact AnalysisIBM Patent · P202007139US01
- Cognitive Claims ProcessingIBM Patent · P202007127US01
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate SpecializationIBM — 2018
- Machine LearningStanford Online (Andrew Ng) — 2017
- Software Architecture for the Internet of ThingsIBM
- IBM Design Thinking PractitionerIBM
- Plateau
- Talent SparkIBM — 2014
- SWG Lab Services Award (LSA)IBM — 2015
- Solutions Lab Services Award (LSA)IBM — 2015
- Manager's Choice AwardIBM — 2016
- Solutions Lab Services Award (LSA)IBM — 2017