I am a Senior AI & Data Science Leader with over 25 years of experience, deeply focused on solving complex enterprise challenges through machine learning, large language models, and data mining. My expertise spans the design and deployment of scalable AI systems that drive automation, personalization, and decision-making across diverse sectors including digital marketing, infrastructure, and business process services.
My career journey uniquely bridges rigorous academic research with impactful product innovation. I've consistently translated foundational research breakthroughs into globally deployed solutions, recognized through influential publications, a portfolio of over 70 patents, and multiple industry and corporate awards.
I am passionate about aligning cutting-edge AI research with long-term business strategy to deliver measurable impact. My areas of expertise include Large Language Models (LLMs), Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Federated Learning, Model Compression, Scalable AI Deployment, Business Automation & Optimization, and AI Research Strategy.
Here's a selection of my most impactful projects, spanning both my academic research and product development career.
Designed and deployed a keyword recommendation system powered by Large Language Models, enhancing targeting precision and improving campaign performance by 70%.
Implemented advertiser-level customized budget recommendations by training new foundation models based on transformer architectures, increasing adoption rates by 40%.
Deployed multi-modal transformer models for key-value pair (KVP) extraction, improving document extraction accuracy by 45% across procure-to-pay workflows for invoices and POs.
Led efforts to enhance OCR performance on noisy documents, increasing text recognition accuracy by 73% through advanced data processing and DL model (CNN) enhancements.
Surpassed global benchmark by training ResNet-50 on ImageNet-1K within 45 minutes using 256 GPUs, improving training efficiency by 25%.
Led integration of automated question-answering systems with Watson Assistant, improving customer engagement and satisfaction scores significantly compared to rule-based systems.
A selection of my peer-reviewed publications and conference proceedings. Please refer to my Google Scholar Profile for a full list.
Authors: Ritesh Kumar, Saurabh Goyal, Ashish Verma, Vatche Isahagjan. AI4BPM 2023.
Authors: PC Cheng, K Eykholt, Z Gu, H Jamjoom, KR Jayaram, E Valdez, A Verma. Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems, 219-235.
Authors: RA Bhope, KR Jayaram, N Venkatasubramanian, A Verma, G Thomas. Proceedings of the 24th International Middleware Conference, 301-315.
Authors: P Dube, T Salonidis, P Ram, A Verma. ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
Authors: F Mohbat, MJ Zaki, C Finegan-Dollak, A Verma. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17219.
Authors: Catherine Finegan-Doolak, Ashish Verma. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP.
Authors: KR Jayaram, V Muthusamy, G Thomas, A Verma, M Purcell. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 180-185.
Authors: KR Jayaram, A Verma, G Thomas, V Muthusamy. 30th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Nice, France, 2022.
Authors: K Jayaram, V Muthusamy, G Thomas, A Verma, M Purcell. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data).
Authors: Jayaram, K.R., Verma, A. (2022). In: Ludwig, H., Baracaldo, N. (eds) Federated Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96896-0_14.
Authors: PC Cheng, K Eykholt, Z Gu, H Jamjoom, KR Jayaram, E Valdez, A Verma. ResilientFL '21: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Systems Challenges in Reliable and Secure Federated Learning.
Authors: Saurabh Goyal, Anamitra Roy Choudhary, Venkatesan Chakaravarthy, Saurabh Manish Raje, Yogish Sabharwal, and Ashish Verma. Submitted to ICML 2020.
Authors: Sidharth Gupta, Parijat Dube, Ashish Verma. Adversarial Machine Learning in Computer Vision Workshop, CVPR 2020.
Authors: Dharma Teja Vooturi, Saurabh Goyal Anamitra R. Choudhury, Yogish Sabharwal, Ashish Verma. IEEE Cloud 2020.
Authors: Koyel Mukherjee, Alind Khare, Yogish Sabharwal and Ashish Verma (2019). NeurIPS 2019, Science meets Engineering of Deep Learning (SEDL).
Authors: Dheeraj Sreedhar, Vaibhav Saxena, Yogish Sabharwal, Ashish Verma, Sameer Kumar. IEEE Cluster 2018.
Authors: Saurav Basu, Vaibhav Saxena, Rintu Panja and Ashish Verma. HiPC 2018.
Authors: Hazra, J and Dasgupta, Kalyan and Manikandan, P and Verma, Ashish and Mathew, Sathyajith and Petra, Iskandar. Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society, pp. 1-5.
Authors: J. Hazra, K. Dasgupta, M. Padmanaban, A. Verma, S. Mathew, I. Petra. 2015 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT ASIA), pp. 1-6.
Authors: M. Padmanaban, J. Hazra, K. Dasgupta, A. Verma, S. Mathew, I. Petra. 2015 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT ASIA), pp. 1-6.
Authors: Ajmera, Jitendra and Joshi, Sachindra and Verma, Ashish and Mittal, Amol. Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014 IEEE 30th International Conference on, pp. 436--447.
Authors: Shajith Ikbal ; Ashish Verma ; Prasanta Ghosh ; Kenneth Church ; Jeffrey Marcus. ICASSP 2013.
Authors: Bharadwaj, Sujeeth and Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark and Ajmera, Jitendra and Deshmukh, Om and Verma, Ashish. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 3098--3102.
Authors: Hemant Purohit, Jitendra Ajmera, Sachindra Joshi, Ashish Verma and Amit Sheth. AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2012).
Authors: Om D Deshmukh, Etienne Marcheret, Ashish Verma. ICASSP 2012.
Authors: Harish Doddala, Om D. Deshmukh, Ashish Verma. In Proc. of ICASSP 2011.
Authors: Om D. Deshmukh, Shajith Ikbal, Ashish Verma, Etienne Marcheret. In Proc. of Interspeech-2011.
Authors: J. Ajmera and Ashish Verma. Interspeech 2011.
Authors: Vikram Gupta, Jitendra Ajmera and Ashish Verma. Interspeech 2011.
Authors: Himanshu Chauhan, Ajay Gupta and Ashish Verma. SRII 2011.
Authors: Shantanu Godbole, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Ajay Gupta, Ashish Verma. CIKM 2010.
Authors: Shantanu Godbole, Indrajit Bhattacharya, Ajay Gupta, Ashish Verma. Frontiers in Service 2010.
Authors: Om D Deshmukh, Harish Doddala, Ashish Verma, Karthik Visweswariah. Interspeech 2010.
Authors: Himanshu Chauhan, Om Deshmukh, Shajith Iqbal, Ashish Verma. INFORMS 2010.
Authors: Shajith Ikbal, Om Deshmukh, Karthik Visweswariah, Ashish Verma. SLT 2010.
Authors: Om Deshmukh, Ashish Verma, Sai Zeng, Chitra Dorai, Maureen Rzasa, Gary Wright, Karthik Vishweswariah. SCC 2010.
Authors: Indrajit Bhattacharya, Shantanu Godbole, Ajay Gupta, Ashish Verma, Jeff, and Kevin English. KDD 2009.
Authors: Indrajit Bhattacharya, Shantanu Godbole, Sachindra Joshi, Ashish Verma. ICDM 2009.
Authors: Ashish Verma, Tyrone Grandison, Himanshu Chauhan. The Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009). Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 2009.
Authors: Indrajit Bhattacharya, Shantanu Godbole, Ajay Gupta, Ashish Verma, and Kevin W English. Frontiers in Services 2009.
Authors: Kartik Audhkhasi, Kundan Kandhway, Om D. Deshmukh, Ashish Verma. Proc. ICASSP 2009.
Authors: Om D. Deshmukh, Kundan Kandhway, Kartik Audhkhasi, Ashish Verma. Proc. ICASSP 2009.
Authors: Om Deshmukh and Ashish Verma. Proc. Interspeech 2008.
Authors: Om Dekshmukh, Sachindra Joshi and Ashish Verma. Proc. Interspeech 2008.
Authors: Abhishek Chandel, Abhinav Parate, Himanshu Pant, Maymon Madathingal, Nitendra Rajput, Shajith Ikbal, Om Deshmukh, Ashish Verma. ASRU 2007, Kyoto, Japan.
Authors: Abhinav Parate, Ashish Verma and Jayanta Basak. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
Authors: Samuel Thomas, Ashish Verma. Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
Authors: Audhkhasi K., Verma A. ICASSP, Honolulu, 2007.
Authors: Verma A., Lal K., Lo Y. Y., Basask J. ICASSP, Toulouse, France, 2006.
Authors: Verma A. and Kumar A. ICASSP, Philadelphia, March, 2005.
Authors: Verma A. and Kumar A. International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June, 2004.
Authors: Kumar A. and Verma A. ICASSP, HongKong, April, 2003.
Authors: Verma A., Rajput N. and Subramaniam L. V. ICASSP, HongKong, April, 2003.
Authors: Verma A. and Kumar A. EUROSPEECH, Geneva, September, 2003.
Authors: Faruquie T.A., Neti C., Rajput N., Subramaniam L. V., and Verma A. National Conference on Communication, Mumbai, January, 2002.
Authors: Neti C., Rajput N. and Verma A. National Conference on Communication, Mumbai, January, 2002.
Authors: Ghosh A., Sarkar A., Verma A. Multimedia Signal Processing, 2001, Cannes, France.
Authors: Iyengar G., Neti C., Verma A. Multimedia Signal Processing, 2001, Cannes, France.
Authors: Decuetos P., Maison B., Neti C., Basu S. and Verma A. RIAO, April 12-14 2000, Paris, France.
Authors: Faruquie T., Subramaniam L. V., Rajput N. and Verma A. IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, July 2000.
Authors: Potamianos G., Verma A., Basu S. and Iyengar G. IEEE Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, July 2000.
Authors: Mukerjee N., Rajput N., Verma A. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing 2000.
Authors: Rajput N., Subramaniam L. V., Verma A. International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, 2000.
Authors: Basu S., Neti C., Rajput N. and Verma A. IEEE conference on Multimedia & Signal Processing, Copenhagen, September 1999.
Authors: Verma A., Faruquie T., Neti C. and Basu S. Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, Keystone, December 1999.
My contributions to innovation as recognized through granted patents. Please refer to my Patent List (Google Patents) for a full list.
Patent Number: WO-2024002635-A1
Patent Number: US-2024362419-A1
Patent Number: US-2024005216-A1
Patent Number: JP-2022177828-A
Patent Number: DE-112022002623-T5
Patent Number: WO-2022228335-A1
Patent Number: US-2023281518-A1
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Patent Number: US-2022358358-A1
Patent Number: US-2022188692-A1
Patent Number: US-12112249-B2
Patent Number: GB-2606867-A
Patent Number: US-2022092423-A1
Patent Number: DE-112020001774-T5
Patent Number: US-2021287094-A1
Patent Number: US-2021271520-A1
Patent Number: US-11551145-B2
Patent Number: US-11941520-B2
Patent Number: US-11410083-B2
Patent Number: US-2020143287-A1
Patent Number: US-2021034374-A1
Patent Number: US-2019220470-A1
Patent Number: US-2020125926-A1
Patent Number: US-2018218095-A1
Patent Number: US-2018013377-A1
Patent Number: US-2017140286-A1
Patent Number: US-2017124666-A1
Patent Number: US-2017102158-A1
Patent Number: US-10614100-B2
Patent Number: US-9620147-B2
Patent Number: US-9569284-B2
Patent Number: US-10354677-B2
Patent Number: US-9276893-B2
Patent Number: US-2013224714-A1
Patent Number: US-8805871-B2
Patent Number: US-2012323570-A1
Patent Number: US-2012209865-A1
Patent Number: US-9524526-B2
Patent Number: US-8676580-B2
Patent Number: US-2012054186-A1
Patent Number: US-8812297-B2
Patent Number: US-2011197206-A1
Patent Number: US-2011196677-A1
Patent Number: JP-2010164971-A
Patent Number: US-8589396-B2
Patent Number: US-2011040554-A1
Patent Number: US-2010185648-A1
Patent Number: US-2009171661-A1
Patent Number: US-2008215326-A1
Patent Number: US-2009070111-A1
Patent Number: US-7729689-B2
Patent Number: US-2007067174-A1
Patent Number: JP-2006163592-A
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Patent Number: US-2002152068-A1
Patent Number: US-6813607-B1
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Highlights of my work featured in various press and media outlets.
Recognitions and awards received for my contributions in research and product development.
Awarded by: IBM, 2022.
Awarded by: IBM, 2021, 2016, 2011.
Awarded by: IBM, 2012.
Awarded by: IBM, 2011.
Awarded by: Government of India.
Membership/Honor: IEEE.