Forward-Deployed Engineer · Founder · Researcher
Aditya Chatterjee
Engineer.Researcher.Founder.
Three lenses on the same problem.
I ship research-grade AI into production for regulated institutions, and run applied research and my own ventures in parallel.
Aditya Chatterjee is a forward-deployed AI engineer at AppliedAI in Abu Dhabi, and studied Computer Engineering at Khalifa University. Aditya also runs Socia and builds Notch, two more lenses on how research-grade AI actually ships.
Agentic systems, speech & NLP, DevOps, autonomous systems are the core of the work. As an advanced forward-deployed engineer at AppliedAI, Aditya designed an autonomous medical coding platform that reached 90% validated ICD/CPT accuracy. Earlier systems include enterprise Voice AI infrastructure, speaker and language ID at Space42, IEEE-published intrusion detection, and LLM-driven UAV traffic management with Khalifa University and TII. The bias is toward velocity: ship in weeks, then hold up to scrutiny.
Forward-deploying with AppliedAI. Scaling Socia and building Notch alongside.
Journey&Experience
Enterprise deployments, research labs and founder work, each with a record of shipping under constraint.
Currently building
Advanced Forward-Deployed AI Engineer & Solutions Consultant
AppliedAI
Engagement lead for the largest healthcare, insurance and government institutions in the region, taking enterprise AI deployments from discovery through production.
- Architect and ship production-grade agentic systems on OpenAI, Anthropic, and hybrid model orchestration, balancing latency, accuracy, cost, and compliance
- Designed an autonomous medical coding platform hitting 90% validated ICD/CPT accuracy, ~40% above prior generative AI benchmarks on live evaluations
- Works directly with executive stakeholders to take strategic deployments from discovery to production in regulated environments
CEO & Co-Founder
Socia
Co-founded the largest student-led hackathon community in the Middle East, alongside shipping Notch end-to-end.
- Shipped Notch, a live, revenue-generating voice-following on-device teleprompter for macOS & Windows
- 1,500+ members across the community, with partners including ADNOC and MBZUAI
- Selected into Antler’s Entrepreneurship Academy for Notch
Career path
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Forward-Deployed Engineer, Founding Delivery Team
Stealth, Enterprise Voice AI
Founding member of the delivery team for an enterprise Voice AI platform, working across architecture, infrastructure and production reliability.
- Authored the proposal that won a $20M semi-government telecommunications RFP
- Took deployments from whiteboard prototypes to production systems handling intelligent call routing and conversational AI
- Worked directly with enterprise executives to scope technical roadmaps under aggressive timelines
AI + DevOps Forward-Deployed Engineer
Khalifa University Enterprises Company
Built the cloud platform and deployment infrastructure powering a next-generation enterprise AI platform.
- Designed deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions, Docker, Azure AI Foundry, Azure Functions, and IaC
- Built internal developer platforms connecting AI inference, databases, APIs, and enterprise auth into one deployment environment
- Since secured eight-figure government funding, validating the technical foundation built during this role
ML Engineer
Secure Unmanned Traffic Management Systems Lab, C2PS
Advanced DroneLM into a research-grade autonomous UAV operations platform integrating LLM reasoning with aviation workflows.
- Built full-stack capabilities across React, Python, Flask, MAVLink, and simulation tooling
- Improved platform robustness through architecture refactoring, prompt engineering, and logging
- Added persistent state management, multi-user capabilities, and deployment tooling
Young AI Leader, Abu Dhabi Hub
AI for Good, United Nations
Young AI Leader for the Abu Dhabi Hub of the United Nations AI for Good initiative, mobilizing students to tackle global sustainability challenges.
- Partnering with the Cairo Hub to foster cross-regional collaboration
- Driving AI solutions for sustainability and societal impact across the region
AI Engineer
Space42, G42
Built production-ready multimodal AI pipelines for enterprise speech intelligence using Whisper, Hugging Face models, and vector search.
- Developed speaker diarization, language identification, and gender classification
- Built semantic retrieval and backend APIs deployed into customer-facing systems
- Worked across research, product, and engineering teams to productionize AI capabilities
Head of Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology
Stealth, HR Technology
First AI engineering lead at an HR technology startup, owning product architecture and technical strategy.
- Built production AI platforms across recruitment, CV intelligence, candidate matching, and workflow automation
- Engineered the technical platform that strengthened the company’s investment case and helped secure additional institutional funding
Executive Fellow
HPAIR HCONF 2026, Harvard University
Fully funded delegate at Harvard's premier global leadership conference alongside heads of state, policymakers, founders, and Fortune 500 executives.
- Selected among the world’s top applicants
Executive Fellow
Business Today International Conference, Princeton University
Collaborated with Fortune 500 executives, founders, and global business leaders at Princeton's Business Today International Conference.
- Selected among the top 1% of global applicants
EducationalJourney
Two degrees run in parallel across two continents, plus a semester in New York. Both degrees ran full-time.
Khalifa University
Achievements
- $135,000 Presidential Merit Full Scholarship
- First-author IEEE publication (HyTEN)
- Study Abroad Student Mentor
Key Coursework
Goldsmiths, University of London
Achievements
- Completed in parallel with Khalifa University, full-time
- Machine Learning and AI Specialism
- Cross-Disciplinary Project-based Experience
Key Coursework
New York University
Achievements
- Tandon Leetcode Bootcamp
- Columbia × NYU LionHacks 2023 Shortlisted
- Global Experience
Key Coursework
On Campus
Publications
Peer-reviewed research, engineered to run at the edge of the network.
HyTEN: A Hybrid Transformer Architecture for Computationally Efficient Intrusion Detection in 6G Vehicular Networks
Aditya Chatterjee, Syed Mohammad Affan, Amine Kidane Ghebreziabiher, Gordon Owusu Boateng, Daniel Ayepah-Mensah, Azzam Mourad, Rabeb Mizouni, Hadi Otrok, Jamal Bentahar, Sami Muhaidat
HyTEN pairs transformer attention with a computationally lean hybrid design to catch intrusions on 6G vehicular networks in real time, built to live inside the latency and compute budgets of the network edge, not just the lab. Distilled from 250+ architecture experiments during network security research at Khalifa University.
LLM-driven UAV traffic management research with Khalifa University and TII. More to come.
TechnicalExpertise
A working stack chosen to ship fast and reason about systems end-to-end.
Machine Learning & AI
Models in production, from training through inference and evaluation.
Programming Languages
The tools I reach for, sharpened through years of use.
Data Science & Analytics
From raw signal to insight at scale.
Web Development
Frontends and APIs for real-time products.
DevOps & Cloud
Production infrastructure with observability and automated delivery.
Databases & Tools
Storage, query, version control, and the unix way.
Award-WinningProjects
Recognized by BCG Platinion, NASA, JAXA, the UAE Space Agency, MOHAP, and more. Built under pressure, designed to actually ship.
1st Place Winner & BCG Platinion Global Champion 2025
Yapless BCG Platinion Global Hackathon
Won Global Champion after first placing across GCC and subsequently SEMEA, the first team from BCG MENA to win the global finals. Yapless delivers real-time conversational intelligence for speech coaching.
FLORES. Loss & Damage Atlas
UAE SpaceHacks 2024 · UAE Space Research Conference
1st Place nationally. A Loss & Damage Atlas for climate disasters: satellite data + computer vision that helps responders quantify impact and route resources.
Baian (بيان). AI Arabic Tutor
Innovation Award, Congress of Arabic & Creative Industries
An AI-powered Arabic learning platform addressing a common challenge of exclusion faced by non-native speakers, with real-time coaching across formal MSA and Emirati dialect.
FlyQ. AI Training Platform
The CrowdLabel Challenge, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
A multilingual Visual Question Answering platform that simultaneously improves language learning while generating high quality multimodal AI training datasets. Global Best Idea Award amongst more than 200 international teams.
MINDPRINT. National AI Mental Health Fingerprint
MOHAP Innovation Hackathon 2025
1st Place, national health ministry hackathon. AI mental-health fingerprinting across voice, face and typing, private and real-time at national scale.
NASA × JAXA Kibo RPC Challenge
5th Annual NASA-JAXA Kibo Robot Programming Challenge
3rd Place regional. Autonomous navigation + real-time image recognition for the Astrobee robot aboard the ISS, with 3D path planning in simulation.
FALCON. Flood Response System
4th Annual Digital Transformation Hackathon
1st Place with Dubai Police + MBRSC. Flood response system pairing satellite imagery analysis with real-time civil defense coordination.
FLORES. Space Innovation
UAE Space Research Conference
$15k grant + selection for the UAE's Space Economic Zone. Urban flood response from computer vision on satellite imagery.
Synapse. AI Research Proposal Acceleration
startAD × Google.org AI for Good
3rd Place + Google.org pilot funding. AI that compresses the research-proposal pipeline end-to-end, now live-piloting with the National MS Society.
AcademicProjects
Research and development from the academic side. Most graded maximum-score, all built with intent.
AAAMT Email Client
Computer NetworksReceived Maximum-Scoring Grade · May 2024Developed a fully functional TCP/UDP-based email client with a modern UI, supporting actual IP communication. Built with Java and JavaFX, implementing custom protocols for reliable message delivery.
Library Management System
Database SystemsReceived Maximum-Scoring Grade · December 2024GoodReads-inspired library database system with comprehensive functionality including book recommendations, user reviews, and inventory management. Features a modern React-based UI and robust PostgreSQL backend.
Hyperpolycystic Polyps Colonic Cancer Detection
Medical AI ApplicationsReceived Maximum-Scoring Grade · December 2023AI-powered detection system for colonic cancer through polyp identification. Implementing state-of-the-art deep learning architectures with an intuitive medical professional interface.
COVID-19 X-Ray Analysis
Machine LearningReceived Maximum-Scoring Grade · May 2024Comprehensive comparison of various ML approaches for COVID-19 detection in chest X-rays. Analyzing performance metrics between CNNs, Decision Trees, Random Forests, and SVMs to determine optimal approach.
F1Tenth Autonomous Racing
Algorithmic RoboticsCompleted · May 2025Developed autonomous path-following algorithms for the F1Tenth competition, optimized for Yas Marina Circuit, with advanced control systems and real-time decision making.
Autonomous USV for Marine Cleanup
Mubadala Higher Education Student CompetitionMubadala Competition · April 2025Built an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for autonomous marine waste collection. Led hardware integration and autonomous systems development including motor control, sensor fusion, computer vision, and navigation algorithms.
Let's build something remarkable.
If you are deploying AI in a regulated environment or want to collaborate on research, my inbox is open. Talking shop on transformers and robotics is welcome too.