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Neil Dave

Neil Dave

Lead AI Engineer — GenAI, ML & Computer Vision specialist

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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Joined December 2025
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Summary

Practical GenAI and ML practitioner transitioning into AI engineering leadership — Neil builds and scales GenAI/agentic AI solutions for enterprise and recruits engineering teams; his recent role at Kanerika focuses on an AICOE initiative and enterprise agentic AI. kanerika+1
Strong applied-research and technical foundation coming from mechanical engineering and signal/vision research — co-author on IEEE/academic papers about feature extraction and texture classification, showing an early research focus on feature engineering and computer vision. doi+2
Creator and community builder — runs a personal blog and Medium where he writes about ML/vision/GenAI, and publishes a podcast series (TND Talks), indicating interest in mentorship, knowledge-sharing and public-facing technical communication. theneildave+2
Experience in student services, placements and international relations from PDPU — he served in PDPU's Office of International Relations / training & placement roles and contributed to university reports and activities, reflecting organizational and cross‑stakeholder coordination skills. ac+1

Work

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Writing

Unleashing the Power of Computer Vision in the Financial Industry — Part 1

August 1, 2023

A Medium article introducing computer vision concepts and their applications in finance (fraud detection, KYC automation, OCR, etc.).

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Feature Extraction And Classification From Texture Image Of Machined Surfaces Using Multilevel Wavelet Decomposition And Logistic Regression

January 1, 2018

Conference/workshop paper (proceedings) on image/texture feature extraction using multilevel wavelet decomposition and logistic regression.

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Feature extraction and classification of machined component texture images using wavelet and artificial intelligence techniques

January 1, 2017

IEEE conference paper (ICMAE 2017) co‑authored by N. Dave on feature extraction and classification for machined-surface textures.

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Hobbies

Food enthusiast who enjoys exploring new places and cultures. theneildave