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Manas Talukdar is a seasoned technology leader with significant contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence and Data Infrastructure. He has been instrumental in the development of innovative AI products used in mission critical sectors across the world.
**Technical and Organizational Leadership in Enterprise AI**
Manas joined the leading Enterprise AI company (C3 AI) as Engineering Manager, prior to their IPO, and scaled his team of 6 engineers to an org of ~30 engineers across multiple teams. He delivered on new innovative and bleeding edge initiatives critical for the company, broadly at the intersection of large-scale data infrastructure and AI. This included scaling data ingestion for the AI Platform, a new data exploration product, a novel metadata based feature store for machine learning, vector database integration, unstructured data integration for Generative AI use-cases, etc. In recognition of his efforts and results, Manas was rapidly promoted twice in a short span of time, to Director of Engineering, reflecting his significant performance and high impact to the business and the industry at large.
Currently as Director of Engineering at Labelbox, a startup where he runs organizations in US and EU, he is driving the development of a data-centric AI platform and AI SaaS products used by leading enterprises and AI labs. This includes innovative initiatives related to LLMs, data labeling, data IO, AI multi-modality, etc.
**Global Adoption of AI Products in Industry Verticals**
AI products developed, directly or indirectly, under Manas's leadership have been adopted in multiple industry verticals across the world. These include solutions for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, energy optimization, supply chain, customer relationship management, data views for industrial AI use-cases, etc. The products have been used in mission critical sectors such as energy, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, etc. and by leading companies in these sectors to drive business value and operational efficiency.
**Innovation and Patents**
The innovative products developed through Manas's leadership resulted in new intellectual property and filing of patents.
**Fellowships and Board Memberships**
Manas was invited to be an AI 2030 Senior Fellow and Advisory Board member due to his impact and leadership in the AI space.
**Mentorship and Advisory Roles**
Manas advises startups in the Data and AI space. He is a startup mentor at the venture backed Alchemist Accelerator. He is an engineering leadership mentor at Plato and MentorCruise. He has provided general guidance to a startup working on a Generative AI based product. He is also a technology advisor for AI, ML at leading expert services firms.
**Honors and Awards**
Manas has been recognized for his exceptional contributions, specifically in the AI and Data space. Some of the more recent awards include a Global Recognition Award and Indian Achiever's Award for 2024. Manas was also elevated to senior member level at IEEE for his consistent significant contributions to the field of AI and Data. He serves on judging panels for multiple prestigious national and international industry awards.
**Public Speaking**
Manas has been invited as a guest to AI podcasts and as guest speaker for university convocation ceremony. He has also been invited to speak at multiple AI and Data conferences. His upcoming talks include at the Chicago AI conference and international Deep Learning conference. He will also be running rountables and workshops at upcoming Elevate engineering leadership conference in San Francisco.
**Conclusion**
In a career spanning around 17 years, Manas Talukdar has had a significant impact on the industry through his technical and organizational leadership. Particularly, in the last couple of years, his contributions to the field of AI and Data Infrastructure have been recognized through multiple awards and honors, speaking engagements and patents for new innovations. The innovative products he has developed are now part of critical infrastructure for several industry verticals throughout the world.
Nomination Title: Manas Talukdar - Director of Engineer; Innovations and Leadership in AI and Data
