Karthik Soman, PhD

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Data Science and AI leader at SAP with expertise in Enterprise-Scale Agentic AI, Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Machine Learning. I currently lead the design and development of enterprise AI platforms and intelligent multi-agent systems for large-scale cloud operations, focusing on AI orchestration, AIOps, and knowledge-driven reasoning systems. Prior to SAP, I worked as a Research Specialist at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where I advanced precision medicine through graph-based machine learning approaches on biomedical and clinical data. During this time, I developed KG-RAG (Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation), an approach that integrates Knowledge Graphs with LLMs to improve contextual reasoning and domain-specific AI applications. My work spans enterprise AI architecture, graph intelligence, retrieval-augmented systems, and agentic AI frameworks, with a strong focus on building scalable and practical AI systems that bridge research innovation with real-world enterprise impact. I hold a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

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