Summary
Soumyendu Sarkar is a seasoned AI technology leader and innovator, currently serving as Senior Director and Senior Distinguished Technologist of Artificial Intelligence at HP Labs in California. He leads reinforcement learning, natural language processing and computer vision programs, and is driving an end-to-end RL AutoML platform, edge-to-cloud deployments, and AI solutions for real-world industries. He built HP Labs' ML Solutions Engineering team from the ground up, shapes strategy and IP development, and actively hires top researchers and early-career PhDs through the Office of CTO. An active author with publications in NeurIPS and AAAI, he bridges research excellence with practical product roadmaps and scalable systems. Before HP, he founded Visaze, a machine learning startup focused on deep learning, CV, and data analytics, and previously led computer vision and ML product efforts at Intel, Bell Labs and related firms, bringing a hands-on, cross-disciplinary track record across hardware accelerators, software, and systems. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines executive leadership with deep technical depth across AI, data science and engineering.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science and Engineering with Spark, UC Berkeley Xseries (3 course certificate), Data Science and Engineering with Spark, UC Berkeley Xseries (3 course certificate) at University of California, Berkeley
Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Pennsylvania State University-Great Valley Graduate Center
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering at Jadavpur University
California Institute of Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Executive Leadership Certificate, Executive Leadership Certificate at Cornell University
Professional Certificate Program (Graduate Courses), Artificial Intelligence, Professional Certificate Program (Graduate Courses), Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University