PROFILE

Jayprasad Hegde

Jayprasad Hegde

Head, Data Science and AI Initiatives, NPCI

Jayprasad Hegde, an alumnus of Berkeley Haas, boasts over two decades of expertise encompassing development, R&D, strategy formulation, and program execution across various sectors and company scales. Proficient in advanced technologies and architectures, he has engaged with three generations of AI technology, showcasing a diverse engineering and technique repertoire. Notably, his recent endeavors feature a spectrum of AI domains, including LLM, RAG, Generative AI, Diffusion, GAN, PageRank, and edge inferencing, and other innovative data science methodologies. He has bootstrapped five programs at NPCI from scratch for India-scale projects, and is constantly working to be at the bleeding edge of tech. At NPCI, he's focused on building a contemporary, next-gen, India-scale, billion-people scale Data Science and AI Stack.