Suhas Pai is an experienced machine learning researcher, having worked in the tech industry for over a decade. He is the co-founder, CTO, and ML Research Lead at Hudson Labs, a Y-Combinator backed AI & Fintech startup, since 2020. At Hudson Labs, Suhas invented several novel techniques in the area of domain-adapted LLMs, text ranking, and representation learning, that fully power the core features of Hudson Lab's products. He has contributed to the development of several open-source LLMs, including being the co-lead of the Privacy working group at BigScience, as part of the BLOOM LLM project.
Suhas is active in the ML community, being Chair of the TMLS (Toronto Machine Learning Summit) conference since 2021. He is also a frequent speaker at AI conferences worldwide, and hosts regular seminars discussing the latest research in the field of NLP.