Abhishek Bhandwaldar

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DISC Type : C

Research Software Engineer at IBM

Greater Boston, United States

Overview

Abhishek is a Research Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in Large Language Models, knowledge infusion, and reinforcement learning. His background includes roles at IBM Research and experience in conversational agents and machine learning explainability. He earned his Masters in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Personality Overview

Critic

Negotiator

Objective Thinker

They are quite likely to negotiate on pricing or other key terms.  They prefer to do logical analysis and value evidence over emotions. They enjoy working alone and do not rely on others very often.

Topics They Care About

Synthetic Data Generation
He is a contributor to Red Hat's open-source Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) Hub, a toolkit for customizing LLMs, and frequently posts about its applications.
Knowledge Infusion (LLMs)
His current role as a Research Engineer at Red Hat is explicitly focused on Knowledge Infusion in Large Language Models.
Continual Learning
Actively shares and promotes his team's work on continual learning for LLMs, aiming to fine-tune models on new tasks without performance regression.

Media Appearances

Abhishek has no verified media appearances

Work History

3-2018
Research Software Engineer at IBM
6-2017 - 8-2017
Data Science Intern (Natural language processing) at botsplash.com
8-2014 - 5-2016
Programmer Analyst at Cognizant

Education

2016 - 2017
Education details unavailable from University of North Carolina at Charlotte
2010 - 2014
Computer Science and Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University

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Insights For Selling To Abhishek

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • If you can, show them industry reports or analyst comments instead of sharing anecdotal stories
  • Be formal and objective, they will appreciate it more
  • Leverage facts and figures wherever possible; use percentages, numbers etc.

DONT's

  • Avoid pushing them too much to involve other stakeholders unless it is critical
  • Don't give superficial answers, they are easily rattled by them
  • Do not use very emotional or colorful language

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Abhishek is

  • Strong evidence of ROI, effective pricing, and proven data points matter the most to them.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Abhishek

  • It is not very hard for them to say no if they are not convinced about the decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Abhishek move?

  • They are neither the fastest nor the slowest decision makers, they are somewhere in the middle.
  • Can Abhishek take some risk or not?

  • They can bear some risk if their analysis backs the decision.

You And Abhishek

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