I'm a Senior Staff / Lead Data Scientist with 13+ years of experience building production-grade ML & GenAI systems — from classical predictive models to modern LLM-powered agents deployed at scale.
I focus on designing reliable, explainable, and cost-efficient AI systems that support real-world business workflows, especially in Sales and Customer engagement domains.
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🤖 GenAI Agents & AI Copilots
- Sales copilots, lead intelligence assistants, and conversational analytics
- Natural language interfaces over structured and unstructured data
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🧠 LLMs & Fine-tuning
- LoRA / PEFT on small and mid-sized language models
- Prompt engineering, RAG, and hybrid ML + LLM architectures
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⚡ Inference & AI Systems
- CPU/GPU inference optimization
- GGUF / llama.cpp vs Transformers benchmarking
- Latency–cost trade-offs for production deployments
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📊 Explainable & Predictive ML
- Interpretable models for conversion likelihood, churn risk, and deal quality
- SHAP-driven explanations embedded into user-facing systems
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🚀 MLOps & Productionization
- CI/CD pipelines for ML & GenAI
- Model monitoring, retraining, and scalable deployments
- SageMaker, Hugging Face, enterprise ML stacks
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🔹 LLM-powered Resume Parser
LoRA-finetuned small language model with optimized CPU inference and Gradio UI. -
🔹 Sales Copilot (GenAI Agent)
Conversational AI assistant that combines predictive ML, real-time analytics, and retrieval-augmented generation to support sales and customer workflows. -
🔹 AI Lead Intelligence System
Hybrid ML + LLM system for ranking and explaining lead quality with interactive dashboards and real-time insights. -
🔹 LLM Inference Benchmarks
Practical benchmarks comparing GGUF, llama.cpp, and Transformers across CPU and GPU setups.
- MS by Research from IIIT Hyderabad
- Published at WWW, ECIR, CIKM workshops
- Strong foundation in NLP, Information Extraction, Entity Linking, and Text Mining
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-panem-71971973/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EZ7ywK0AAAAJ&hl=en
- GitHub: https://github.com/sandeeppanem