I am Manas Paldhe. I am a lead machine learning engineer at a healthcare AI company Infinitus Systems.
I build cutting edge conversational AI system that automates phone calls in the healthcare industry so that provides can focus on giving care instead of administrative tasks. Previously I built discovery products at Twitch to help viewers find content to watch. I also worked at ClipMine where I built computer vision pipeline to extract information from videos.
I have published a 7 robotics and NLP papers in top conferences like ICRA and NAACL, and have two patents (one in phone call automation, and another in computer vision).
I did my M.S in ECE from Purdue University, and B.Tech in Engineering Physics from IIT Delhi
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/manas-paldhe-b8816517/
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