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Nilesh Barla

Sharpshooter · DISC type CD
Research Fellow at Adaline
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nilesh Barla is a Research Fellow at Adaline, specializing in AI evaluations and observability to find the limits of LLMs. A graduate of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, he has a background in data science and AI engineering. Colleagues describe him as profound, patient, and highly skilled.

Nilesh is driven by a mission to document and explain complex AI research for a broader audience, including product leaders and engineers. He channels this passion into writing and coding, exploring the intricacies of AI with a focus on delivering well-researched, meaningful content through his newsletter and publications.

Unique fact: He founded Perceptron AI, an initiative dedicated to making AI research in medicine, productivity, and materials science accessible through blogs and reviews.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Research Fellow
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Personality Overview

How Nilesh shows up

ROI Driven
Precise But Practical
Thorough Evaluator

More than the product, they care about the impact of the product. They prefer to be the ones controlling the conversation or defining the terms. They respond better to strong and respectful interactions.

Priorities

Topics Nilesh cares about

LLM Evaluation
His current role at Adaline is focused on AI Evals & Observability, researching and writing about the performance limits of large language models.
AI Alignment
He has written about how unaligned AI systems can break products by missing user intent, values, or context, even if they are technically accurate.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Research Fellow
Adaline
4-2020 - 1-2025
Founder
Perceptron AI
3-2019 - 4-2020
Chief Technical Officer | Artificial Intelligence Engineer and Data Scientist
Genesis Trainings
12-2018 - 3-2019
Sales Manager
Edureka
5-2018 - 12-2018
Data Scientist
Rubixe
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Media appearances

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Education
7-2013 - 4-2017
Bachelor's degree
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
2011 - 2013
Maths
Karunya Residential International Mat. Hr. Sec. School
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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