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Sujith K. Mandala

Kaggle Grand Master | Data Scientist | AI Engineer

Building agentic AI systems, fine-tuning LLMs & VLMs, and designing financial-crime AI at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

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About

Data scientist and AI engineer turning frontier research into production-ready systems. At the Commonwealth Bank of Australia I architect agentic AI frameworks for financial-crime investigation — orchestrating sub-agents, MCP tools, and memory-engineered pipelines at scale.

My work spans LLMs, VLMs, RAG, differential privacy, and evaluation science. Researched at Harvard, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon. Kaggle Grandmaster with 400,000+ views.

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Experience

Feb 2026 — PresentCommonwealth Bank of Australia

Associate Data Scientist — Financial Crime Investigations

Architected an end-to-end agentic AI framework with specialised sub-agents and MCP tools as RESTful APIs. Engineered multi-agent pipelines using episodic & semantic memory stores. Designed LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation suite.

Agentic AIMCPLLMsRAGMemory Engineering
Feb 2026 — PresentCommonwealth Bank of Australia

Associate Data Scientist — Financial Crime Modelling

Contributed to first enterprise-scale AI models for financial-crime detection. Applied differential privacy for privacy-preserving AI over sensitive data.

LLMsNLPDifferential PrivacySQL
Sep 2024 — Feb 2026Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Graduate Data Scientist

Fine-tuned VLMs & LLMs for document fraud detection. Built agentic AI for change & migration risk assessment.

VLMsLLMsAgentic AINLP
Aug 2023 — Aug 2024Axlmed · Boston

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

NLP with LLMs for medical information structuring. Built retrieval pipelines using PubMed and medical-domain sources.

NLPLLMsPubMed
Feb — May 2024Scale AI (via Mercor)

AI & ML Engineer

Prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning. Contributed to RLHF methodology for model responsiveness.

LLMsRLHFPrompt Engineering
Feb — Mar 2023Omdena · Jordan

ML Engineer & Modelling Lead

Led ML modelling for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia detection — 95% classification accuracy.

Computer VisionCNNsPython
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Research

May — Aug 2024

Harvard University & MIT

Biases in LLM text generation across linguistically diverse medical contexts.

May — Aug 2023

Carnegie Mellon University

ML & deep learning for subtomogram identification in Cryo-electron Tomography.

Jan — May 2023

Artificial Neural Computing

AI/ML for statistical modelling, thermodynamics, and bio-inspired algorithms.

Jan — Feb 2023

NIT Karnataka, Surathkal

ML algorithms for IoT security breach detection.

Dec 2022 — Jan 2023

UT San Antonio

Diffusion models across diverse domains.

Nov — Dec 2022

The University of Sheffield

Fine-tuning pre-trained computer-vision models — ImageNet, ResNet.

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Awards

Top 7 AI Community Contributors — NomineeAnalytics Vidhya, 2026
OpenAI Researcher Access Program$1,000 GPT-4 API credits · MIT & Harvard
1st Place — Kaggle Playground S3E6Best RMSE among 702 data scientists
Department Topper (Rank 1)IT Dept · Cohort of 200
Kaggle Datasets GrandmasterApril 2024
Candidate Associate — CandORSThe Operational Research Society
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Publications

Format-Controlled Multi-Scale JPEG Compression Response Analysis for Image-Level Compression-History Forgery Screening

9th IEEE PRAI Conference

GeeksforGeeks — Technical Author

30+ articles · 350,000+ viewsView profile →
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Education

B.Tech — Information Technology (Minor: AI & ML)

St. Martin's Engineering College

9 CGPA2020 — 2024

Diploma — Software Engineering

European Open University

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Let's build something

intelligent.

Open to research collaborations, agentic-AI projects, and conversations about applied ML.