Utkarsh Contractor serves as the VP of AI and Machine Learning at Aisera. He leads data science and ML engineering teams working on critical machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and classical ML. Utkarsh brings over 15 years of industry experience in information retrieval and machine learning. He pursued graduate studies at Stanford University, where his research was focused on NLP and reinforcement learning. He has held leadership roles at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs and holds several patents in AI and ML.