Himanshu Gupta

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DISC Type : C

Applied Scientist at Amazon

Mountain View, California, United States

Overview

Himanshu Gupta is an Applied Scientist at Amazon focused on improving Large Language Models. A graduate of Arizona State University and BITS Pilani, his expertise includes pre-training multilingual models and enhancing reasoning capabilities in AI. He has also filed patents related to automated document extraction from his time at American Express.

Outside of his primary work, Himanshu shows a keen interest in competitive innovation, having secured 2nd place among 6000+ teams in the HackHarvard 2019 global hackathon. His academic achievements include receiving the Engineering Graduate Fellowship at ASU for his scholastic performance.

As a Founding Scientist at Krutrim, he was part of the team that pretrained a 7B LLM specifically for low-resource Indic languages.

Personality Overview

Information Seeker

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Objective Thinker

Unless the value is proven by data, they are unlikely to value fancy features.  It is very likely that they will negotiate pricing or other important terms. They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others.

Topics They Care About

Large Language Models
His current role at Amazon and past work at Krutrim involves the entire lifecycle of LLMs, from mid-training data curation to post-training alignment (SFT, DPO, GRPO).
Multilingual AI
As a Founding Scientist at Krutrim, he worked on pretraining a foundational LLM for 10 low-resource Indic languages, including developing a specialized multilingual tokenizer.
AI Reasoning
He co-authored the "Polymath" benchmark, a recent project aimed at evaluating the mathematical and abstract reasoning skills of advanced multi-modal models like GPT-4o and Claude 3. 5.

Media Appearances

Himanshu has no verified media appearances

Work History

11-2023
Applied Scientist at Amazon
8-2023 - 11-2023
Founding Scientist at Krutrim
5-2023 - 8-2023
Software Development Engineer - ML at Amazon
1-2022 - 5-2023
Graduate Research Assistant at Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University
7-2019 - 12-2021
AI Researcher (AI Labs) at American Express

Education

1-2022 - 12-2023
Master of Science - MS from Arizona State University
6-2015 - 7-2019
Bachelor of Engineering with Honors from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

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Insights For Selling To Himanshu

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Don’t forget to mention how you compare to competition on both features and pricing
  • Tell them what ROI they can expect
  • If you can, show them industry reports or analyst comments instead of sharing anecdotal stories

DONT's

  • Don’t try to give too many examples of other users, they like to make their own decisions
  • Do not use very emotional or colorful language
  • Don’t try too hard to build a relationship with them

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Himanshu is

  • Proven ROI, pricing and objective proof points are the factors that sway their decision.
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Himanshu

  • They are comfortable saying no if they are convinced that it is the correct decision.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Himanshu move?

  • Their decision-making is neither very fast nor very slow, they are somewhere in between.
  • Can Himanshu take some risk or not?

  • They can take risks if their analysis shows that it would be worth it.

You And Himanshu

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