I’m a Senior Data Scientist at Perfios Software Solutions specializing in reasoning models and production machine learning systems.

With a background in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and deep expertise in generative AI, I focus on building domain-specific reasoning models that operate efficiently in production environments.

Professional Timeline

2022

Data Science Intern at Perfios Software Solutions

Undergraduate Researcher at VGSOM under Dr. Swagato Chatterjee

Udacity-AWS ML Scholarship (1st Cohort)

2023

Started online ML blogging

Graduated from IIT Kharagpur

Applied Scientist-I at Perfios Software Solutions

2025

Finalist in Perfios IdeaFest competition

Promoted to Senior Data Scientist at Perfios

1st Place - Reasoning Dataset Competition (BespokeLabs, HuggingFace & Together.ai)

Volunteer research work at Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab

First Research Paper (solo author) accepted at FinNLP Workshop, EMNLP 2025

Started contributing to AI to Food Allergies project, HuggingScience, HuggingFace

Impact & Statistics

• 5000+ All-time downloads across HuggingFace
• 600+ Direct model downloads from my profile across 5 specialized financial AI models
• 29000+ Additional downloads through third-party quantized versions (bartowski, mradermacher)
• 4400+ All-time dataset downloads across 9 curated datasets

Featured Work

PersonalFinance_v2 Dataset

Competition Winner • 1600+ all-time downloads • 24 likes

First prize winner in the Reasoning Dataset Creation Competition 2025. Features 7.04k high-quality financial reasoning examples with explicit chain-of-thought explanations.

View on HuggingFace →

Kuvera Model Series

5 models • 600+ all-time downloads • Financial AI

Specialized language models (8B, 4B, 12B, 14B parameters) optimized for personal finance reasoning and single-GPU deployment in production environments.

View Models →

Social Media Impact on Crowdfunding

9-month undergraduate research project

Research conducted under Dr. Swagato Chatterjee investigating the relationship between social media engagement and crowdfunding campaign success. Analyzed patterns in social media metrics and their correlation with funding outcomes.

Professional Experience

Senior Data Scientist - Perfios Software Solutions (Mar 2025 - Present)
Leading advanced AI research initiatives and cross-functional AI implementation projects. Spearheading strategic ML development for enterprise-scale financial applications.

Applied Scientist-I - Perfios Software Solutions (Jun 2023 - Mar 2025)
Led AI strategy for fintech applications. Developed production-ready LLM systems serving enterprise clients. Optimized document processing latency and improved model performance for financial document analysis. Built and deployed machine learning models for automated financial data extraction and validation.

Data Science Intern - Perfios Software Solutions (May 2022 - Jul 2022)
Gained foundational experience in financial data processing and machine learning model development in production environments.

Research Experience

Research Volunteer - Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab (Aug 2025- Present)

• Developing generalized financial reasoning models and validating their performance through rigorous ablation studies across multiple model scales and difficulty bands.

Research Intern - VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur (Aug 2022 - Apr 2023)
Project: Impact of Social Media engagement on Crowdfunding Success

• Conducted research under Dr. Swagato Chatterjee investigating the relationship between social media engagement and crowdfunding campaign success. Analyzed patterns in social media metrics and their correlation with funding outcomes.

Education

B.Tech Aerospace Engineering - IIT Kharagpur (2019-2023)
Advanced ML/AI coursework including Graphical and Generative Modelling, Dependable AI-ML, and Deep Learning Foundations.

Udacity-AWS Machine Learning Scholarship - 1st Cohort (Sep 2022)
Selected for prestigious machine learning scholarship program in collaboration with AWS.

Undergraduate Research - Social media impact on crowdfunding campaigns (9 months under Dr. Swagato Chatterjee)

Publications & Writing

Research Papers

• “Synthesizing Behaviorally-Grounded Reasoning Chains: A Data-Generation Framework for Personal Finance LLMs” • FinNLP, EMNLP 2025

Technical Writing

• Medium - 212 followers, published on Towards AI

Technical Expertise

Core Technologies: PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers, TRL, TensorFlow, Docker, Git

Specializations: Financial AI, Chain-of-thought reasoning, Single-GPU optimization, Production ML systems, Dataset creation

Domains: LLM Data Curation, Efficient Model training, Document processing, Enterprise AI deployment

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