Suhas Pai, CTO of Hudson Labs

Suhas is a well-known applied AI, natural language processing and machine learning researcher, currently focused on large language models and information retrieval. He is writing a book on large language models with O’Reilly Media. He has been active on the open-source LLM front, having been the Privacy co-chair at Big Science for the BLOOM LLM, which at the time of its release was the world’s largest open-source multilingual LLM, along with contributions to various other LLMs and their training datasets. He has been the chair of the Toronto Machine Learning Summit for the last 3 years, and is the NLP lead at Aggregate Intellect, an ML community.

Suhas has a Masters degree in Computer Science from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, and has had a long career in software and machine learning, including working as a senior (staff) software engineer at IBM for over 5 years in the field of information security.

Apart from LLMs, Suhas is also passionate about politics and data-driven political strategies, densely populated cities and public transit, and repeating the same April Fools joke every year.