Search in the LLM Era for AI Engineers

Nirant Kasliwal is a notable AI Engineer with over 7 years of expertise in areas like chatbots, language models, and vector databases. He founded FastEmbed, an embedding library praised for its speed and utilized by companies including NVIDIA.

Recognized by AI luminaries such as Dr. Andrew Ng, Nirant is one of India's leading GenAI scientists. He has significantly contributed to AI education through projects like "Awesome NLP," a resource for engineers learning NLP, and continues to enhance AI accessibility and knowledge sharing.

Jithin James (jjmachan) is the founder of Exploding Gradients and creator of ragas, an open-source tool for evaluating RAG pipelines. He builds tools to help devs building with LLMs, especially those building with RAG pipelines. 

His work on ragas has significantly advanced the field of RAG evaluation, providing developers with crucial tools to enhance LLM-based applications. His contributions to open-source projects like BentoML have streamlined ML model deployment processes across the industry.

ragas is used by OpenAI for RAG evals. 

Dhruv Anand is the Founder and CEO of AI Northstar Tech, an innovation startup leveraging LLMs, vector embeddings, and databases to enhance Search and Recommendation systems, and build custom RAG applications.

An alumnus of Computer Science departments at Carnegie Mellon and IIT Kanpur, he has worked on ML models for Search products at both Google and Facebook.

As a consultant, Dhruv delivers optimized AI solutions to enterprises, specializing in Search algorithms and LLM fine-tuning. His expertise lies in architecting scalable AI systems that bridge academic research with industry demands.