Nirant Kasliwal is a notable AI Engineer with over 7 years of expertise in areas like chatbots, language models, and vector databases. He founded FastEmbed, an embedding library praised for its speed and utilized by companies including NVIDIA.

Recognized by AI luminaries such as Dr. Andrew Ng, Nirant is one of India's leading GenAI scientists. He has significantly contributed to AI education through projects like "Awesome NLP," a resource for engineers learning NLP, and continues to enhance AI accessibility and knowledge sharing.

Doug has done embedding-based retrieval since using Latent Semantic Indexing to generate search synonyms in 2013. Author of Relevant Search + AI Powered Search, he now helps teams build RAG and search applications. Previous work includes leading search at Reddit, Shopify, and several AI Startups..