About

Mehul Kumar is a Research Associate at Samsung Electronics with a passion for emerging technologies and their potential to revolutionize various industries. With a background in Computer Science, Mehul graduated from both the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Columbia University with a B.Tech and MS in Computer Science, respectively. Mehul's interests span across a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, climate science, neurology, anthropology, and more. He spends significant time exploring and developing his expertise in Machine Learning, Distributed Ledgers, and Quantum Computing, which he sees as crucial tools to solve large-scale industrial problems like reliable logistics, sustainable development, and combating climate change. Additionally, Mehul believes that these technologies can be used to address social issues such as discrimination, corruption, and misinformation. Mehul's professional experience includes working as a Research Associate at Samsung, where he focused on End-to-End Speech Recognition using Machine Learning. He also worked in a high-performance computation group that focused on heterogeneous architectures and parallel programming to improve performance. During his time at Samsung, Mehul programmed, debugged, and benchmarked on different architectures such as ARMv8, Hexagon DSP, and learned about hardware design. He also worked on research projects with neural networks and LLVM compiler. Prior to Samsung, Mehul worked as a Software Developer Intern at Microsoft, where he developed data pipelines and analytics. Mehul's education history includes a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Columbia University, a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an exchange semester in Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong. His technical skills include Research Scientist, Mobile, Software Engineer, ML, NLP, infra, and Python. Overall, with 9.60 years of relevant experience, Mehul Kumar is a highly skilled and motivated professional with a passion for emerging technologies and their potential to solve complex problems.