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Akshay Gugnani

Founder at Expertia AI | ex-IBM Research | MIT

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Overview 

Akshay Gugnani is the Founder of Expertia AI, having previously worked at IBM Research and MIT. With a background in Artificial Intelligence and extensive experience in software engineering research, his career highlights include founding a successful AI company and serving as an Entrepreneur In Residence at Entrepreneur First. Currently, Akshay leads Expertia AI, leveraging his expertise in AI, C++, Python, and machine learning to drive business strategy and innovation. His previous roles at IBM Research and MIT demonstrate a strong foundation in research and software development, contributing to his success in the field of artificial intelligence.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2021 - Current

    Building for the next decade of hiring and recruitment for SMEs using deep-tech https://expertia.ai/

  • Entrepreneur In Residence

    2020 - 2021

  • Software Engineering Researcher - IBM Research

    2017 - 2020

    • Working on an Early Warning Signal(EWS)detection system for Non-Performing Assets(NPA) by mining unstructured data to identify signals for a possible NPA prediction. • Completed work on the Career Counsellor bluemix service as part Education Research team. I developed an Information Extraction pipeline by developing NLP, data mining and rule-based tools and APIs for skill extraction from candidate profiles and job descriptions to recommend suitable jobs by mining explicit and implicit skills.

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

  • Research Intern

    2016 - 2017

  • Undergraduate Researcher

    2015 - 2017

    • Working under Prof. Patrick Henry Winston to help build a natural language processing system that mines literature for knowledge about causal connections

MIT CSAIL pioneers computer techniques that improve how people work, play, and learn.

  • Business Lead

    2013 - 2017

    The Club aimed to usher in a culture of developers in the campus. The club is a part of the Google Students Ambassador Program. It aimed to facilitate the training of the students in the areas of Android app development, digital marketing and cloud computing. Over the past two years, have lead a team of student to: 1. Organized two Technical fest with 15 events and 7 workshops, with a total participation of over 4500 2. Introduced concepts of internet, email, Youtube to senior citizens and underprivileged children 3. Helped a start-up establish its social presence on G+

  • Research Intern

    2016 - 2016

    • Developed a normalized candidate mapping system which can mine applicant data to rank and map their profiles for specific roles, determine career paths also suggestive modules to improve skills for job roles based on skill graphs. • Developed a semantic and text structure based natural language processing system for skill extraction from resume(,pdf/.doc/.txt) and LinkedIn profiles and in order to generate a skill graph which is based on the skills acquired at different roles, over period of time and the kind of acquired skills. • The skill extraction expands to gathering knowledge of the applicant. The system works with the use of IBM Watson and Bluemix platform.

IBM is an IT technology and consulting firm providing computer hardware, software, infrastructure, and hosting services.

  • Summer Intern

    2015 - 2015

    Worked on projects based on Web-development and software development. I was working on the following projects – Web API for OCR, Connector between Google Sheets and MySQL, Web Development using PHP, Bootstrap and JQuery.

  • President Mathematical Society

    2012 - 2013

    As the President, headed a team of motivated students interested in organizing and conducting events focused around Maths. Organized the “The World Mathematical Crusade”, an International Level Mathematical Symposium, in December 2012

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