About

Suresh Challiyil is a highly skilled Data Scientist with over 17 years of experience in the IT industry. He is currently working as a Machine Learning Engineer at an AI computer vision startup, where he has been involved in deep learning projects for computer vision applications for over 3 years. Suresh has expertise in statistical modeling, parameter estimation, clustering, and classification, as well as face recognition and verification, linear algebra, probability, and statistics. Suresh has built an Artificial Intelligence solution for an OTT platform that generates personalized trailers from movies for each viewer's genre preference. He is an expert in Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto Encoders (VAEs), and has experience in modifying existing Imagenet models for specific scenarios. He is also an expert in explaining and debugging Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models using gradient-based methods like CAM and Grad-CAM. Suresh has filed one patent that is currently pending in the US Patent Office and has expertise in Deep Neural Networks and Generative Models for Computer Vision. He also has expertise in Windows Kernel, Win32, Linux system programming, and virtualization. Suresh has worked for Microsoft and VMware in the past, where he was involved in source and assembly level debugging of dump files to root cause kernel issues, instrumenting kernel and drivers to find fixes for enterprise customer issues, and adding extensions to the debugger for analysis of kernel issues. Suresh has an M.S. in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Mahatma Gandhi University. He has completed courses in Advanced Probability Theory from IIT Delhi, Introduction to Stochastic Processes from IIT Bombay (where he was a topper in the exam), and Deep Learning for Computer Vision from IIT Hyderabad. Suresh's tech stack includes ML, Computer Vision, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Adversarial Networks, CNN, ResNet, Python, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Pandas, Pytorch, and C++. With 16.70 years of relevant experience, Suresh is a highly skilled and experienced data scientist with expertise in a wide range of areas.