Leader in Opportunistic
and Responsible AI
and Responsible AI
Optimistic Visionary: I believe that AI can improve society, as I embrace AI’s societal impact and write about it in "The Fear of AGI is Unwarranted" (Medium Article).
Responsible Steward: I manage AI’s risks with care, as is evident in my HUD role, which leads to AI risk management and my focus on ethical deployment.
Expert Practitioner: I bring over a decade of AI/ML experience, including defense and healthcare innovation and thought leadership on first-principles approaches like physics-based AGI (Medium Article).
Creative Synergist: I view AI as intelligence amplified by human creativity, and is reflected in my mentoring through Team Chuck and my philosophy on AI’s power.
More than 25 years of working with Data
Governing Body Member of So.Cal. Chief Data Officers group
Conference Speaker and Presenter
Patents Pending
Ideation & Delivery of ML Solutions
Data Discovery and Exploration
ML and Business Analytics Strategy
Solution Architecture
Project Management
Executive Data Science Certification
Data Science Certification
Applied Statistics Certification
MS Computer Science, UIC Chicago
MS Transportation Eng., IIT Roorkee
B.S. Civil Eng., Osmania University
WORK HISTORY
Fellow at Office of Chief AI Officer @ U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Current
Developing a standardized AI Risk Management Process.
Contributed to HUD's AI Strategy
Ensures that AI is safe and responsible at scale, leveraging extensive experience with AI/ML and LLMs.
Triage AI use cases at HUD for compliance with the President's EO-14410 and OMB Memo M-24-10.
Founder/CEO @ Axiomatic LLC Nov 2023 – Present
Proposed research on AI safety to OpenAI
Architected NLP feature extraction from descriptions for the US Navy.
Built lead management solution with Amazon Q (Cloud MSP)
Developed & released CustomGPT on the ChatGPT Store
Built Q&A website using LLM on AWS (political campaign)
Machine Learning Architect @ 4LData, Inc Aug 2021 – Oct 2023
Architected AI/ML product for hospice care (impact)
Led product development and initial customer adoption.
Built predictive end-of-life models.
Improved model accuracy with visit notes and vitals.
Achieved product success and customer acquisition.
Principal Data Scientist @ SkygenUSA Jun 2018 – Jun 2021
Managed 20+ data professionals, ensuring timely & accurate client reports.
Improved report accuracy by 25%, preventing compliance fines.
Saved 250+ hours for the team using data analysis.
Retained key customers via customer survey insights.
Reduced customer support turnaround time by 20% with predictive analytics
Automated workflows, reducing claim authorization time by 60%.
Principal Data Scientist @ VSolvit, LLC. Oct 2017 – Jun 2018
Developed 10+ AI/ML solutions for Department of Defence(DoD) proposals.
Led team of data scientists for DoD projects.
Delivered AI/ML solutions for the US Navy (NAVSEA).
Developed intelligent data pipeline for the Navy.
Proof of concept for Navy ship maintenance.
Sr. Director Data Science @ Providence St. Joseph Health Dec 2015 – Aug 2017
Led data science program & influenced business leaders to be data-driven.
Delivered over $40M in procurement savings through data analysis.
Saved $2M in hospitals using predictive models for nurse staffing.
Deployed AI model in ICU for early detection of critical events.
Established data operations pipeline for efficient data analysis & visualization.
Automated hospital quality metric prediction.
Principal Consultant @ Data Science Consulting May 2014 – Nov 2015
Founded a data analytics consulting firm & served diverse clients.
Improved profit calculation algorithms for Yokohama.
Developed bankruptcy case classification model for BMS.
Reduced support calls through data quality improvement at BMS.
Resolved integration issues at BMS.
Delivered successful outcomes for the clients.