Enterprise AI · Research · Leadership
AI. Built for the real world.
Head of AI & Data Platform at Tata Sons, Tata Group. Previously at Ola Krutrim and Reliance Jio Haptik. Focused on enterprise AI, agentic systems and large language models.
Alumni felicitation by the Vice President of India.
CMRIT · Silver JubileeHead of AI & Data Platform
Tata Sons · Tata GroupLeadership experience
across leading enterprises
01 / Profile
I’m Ashish Kumar, an AI and data leader working where research meets the systems people and organisations use every day.
From language model development at Ola’s Krutrim to conversational AI at Reliance Jio Haptik, my work has centred on bringing AI into products. Today, I head AI & Data Platform at Tata Sons, within Tata Group.
My AI and LLM expertise spans model alignment, natural language understanding and enterprise intelligence. My experience also includes leading data science at Salesken and AI research at Active.Ai.
Read my full biography and career background →
Areas of focus
Strategy & platforms
Connecting AI research with business needs, enterprise data and production systems. My experience spans AI and data platforms at Tata Group, language models at Ola Krutrim, and conversational products at Reliance Jio Haptik.
Explore my experienceAgents & workflows
AI agents connect language models with tools and enterprise knowledge to carry out tasks. My focus is on useful workflows, grounded responses, measurable quality and clear human oversight.
Discuss agentic AIModels & evaluation
My work with large language models (LLMs) covers language understanding, generation, fine-tuning and alignment. My published models and technical writing explore query quality, paraphrase diversity and conversational AI.
Explore research and models02 / Experience
Head of AI & Data Platform
Leading AI and data platform development for strategic initiatives, with a focus on agentic AI and enterprise applications.
Director – Applied AI
Foundation language models, fine-tuning, alignment and enterprise model development at an Ola company.
Vice President – Data Science
Generative AI for sales intelligence and language model research.
Assistant Vice President
Conversational AI and chatbot solutions for consumer applications.
Vice President – AI
AI research and conversational systems for banking and financial services.
03 / Recognition
Recognition from Analytics India Magazine (AIM), Times Business Awards and CMRIT, alongside a featured profile in Forbes India.
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CMRIT / Distinguished alumni
Alumni felicitation by Vice President of India C. P. Radhakrishnan at CMRIT’s Silver Jubilee celebration in Bengaluru.
Event coverage & photo credit: CMRIT2022 / Artificial Intelligence
Recognised in the Artificial Intelligence category.
Announcement & photo: TOI / MediawireAnalytics India Magazine (AIM)
Award listingITNEXT · 9.9 GROUP
Recognised among India’s next generation of IT leaders.
Official winners list
Forbes India / Featured profile
Featured in “Game Changing Leaders You Should Know About” in Forbes India’s November–December 2025 Rich List edition.
The profile highlights my work in enterprise AI across Tata, Ola Krutrim and Reliance Jio Haptik.
Forbes India · November–December 2025
Clipping from the print edition
01 / Language understanding
A published model for scoring how well-formed a natural language query is.
Explore the model02 / Text ranking
A language model focused on ranking diversity in paraphrased text.
Explore the model03 / Model collection
Published experiments spanning language generation, context resolution and text processing.
View Hugging Face profile05 / Speaking
Techtonix / 5th edition
21 February 2024 · Bengaluru
I joined the panel as Director of Applied AI at Ola’s Krutrim, alongside Anantharam Vanchi and Utkarsh B of xmplify.tech. Aakash Kumar, Managing Director at Matrix Partners India, moderated the conversation.
We explored AI’s role in business, how founders can build with it, and what it takes to turn models into useful products.
View event announcement ↗06 / Writing
My writing for Active.Ai and Haptik, alongside technical notes on language understanding and AI products.
Active.Ai · July 2018
A practical look at AI hype, the limits of benchmark results, and what research can deliver in real products.
Read on Active AI’s publication ↗Haptik · Conversations on AI
Exploring how brain–computer interfaces, bionics and nonverbal signals could shape the next generation of virtual assistants.
Read on Haptik’s Conversations on AI ↗LET’S CONNECT
For conversations on enterprise AI strategy, agentic AI, language models and intelligent data platforms.