Aritra Kumar Lahiri

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Ph.D. Candidate and AI/ML Researcher with 9+ years of software and applied research experience in context-aware QA systems in NLP, multimodal foundation models specializing in LLM/VLM fusion, RAG methodolgies, and deep learning for real-world applications. With publications in top-tier journals/conferences (IEEE, ACM, CIKM, ECIR, Springer), I have led research in multimodal RAG and QA techniques in clinical and narrative domains. Skilled in PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLMs, including GPT-family models, I have a strong record of integrating research prototypes into production environments using GCP, Docker, and FastAPI. Actively mentored junior researchers and contribute to high-impact, IP-focused AI innovations.

I am located in Toronto, Ontario.

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