Hersh Gupta
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Hersh Gupta

Responsible AI · Generative AI · Applied Science

I’m an applied scientist working on responsible AI and generative AI evaluation. I’ve spent the past eight years building ML systems and leading data science teams, mostly across government and enterprise settings. These days I’m focused on model evaluation, risk assessment, and figuring out how to deploy AI thoughtfully.

Recent Writing

I Didn’t Leave Public Service, Public Service Left Me: Why Inefficient Government Hiring Processes Drove Me Away

Employment
Government
When I graduated college with technical skills in statistics and computational social science, I was drawn to public service. A semester in the nation’s capital and deep…
Feb 15, 2025

What I Learned Building CityUpdate: An AI-Powered Data Product for Public Sector Transparency

Government
AI
LLM

What I learned building CityUpdate, an AI powered data product for the public sector

Feb 12, 2025

Building Smarter 311 Systems with Vision Models

Government
AI
LMM

Enhance city service requests with AI

Dec 14, 2024

Local Vision-Language Model Experimentation for Public Sector Use Cases

Open Source
Government
AI
Computer vision has evolved many times, from basic handwriting pattern recognition to object detection. Now, with the emergence of Large Multimodal Model (LMM), it’s…
Nov 27, 2024

Why Most State and Local Generative AI Efforts Won’t Be as Impactful as Promised

Government
AI
I'm a data scientist working on AI in city government. I think hype around generative AI in the public sector is causing more issues than it promises to solve.
May 16, 2024
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