{"id":12824,"date":"2025-02-10T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-cometml.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12824"},"modified":"2025-06-12T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T18:00:38","slug":"debasmita-das","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/convergence\/debasmita-das\/","title":{"rendered":"Debasmita Das"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--100);padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--160);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--100)\"><div class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-16488 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/convergence-hero-background-scaled.jpg)\"><\/div><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#4a1e26\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-12dd3699 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"has-background-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a2024186819c231e941dc556eed5a54\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/convergence\/\">\u2190 BACK TO EVENT PAGE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b61b2f12 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:275px\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized is-style-opik is-style-opik--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1c897861cbce065d35bcb7d8f70f1d3f.png\" alt=\"debasmita das headshot\" class=\"wp-image-9494\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:275px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1c897861cbce065d35bcb7d8f70f1d3f.png 500w, https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1c897861cbce065d35bcb7d8f70f1d3f-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-a0d49d46 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h1 style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400;\" class=\"wp-block-post-title has-display-m-font-size\">Debasmita Das<\/h1>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-body-l-font-size\" id=\"h-data-science-educator-and-vanishing-gradients-host\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Manager, Data Science at Mastercard<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-6c531013 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-opik is-style-opik--2\"\/>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Debasmita is a data scientist with over 9 years of work experience in Finance and Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on Generative AI, Fraud detection, Anti-Money Laundering and HR Analytics. At present, she leads a Data Science team at Mastercard that builds AI-driven solutions. She has authored multiple research papers and has 2 granted patents within this domain. She was recognized as one of the \u2018Women to Watch Out for in AI &amp; Analytics\u2019 at 3AI PINNACLE AWARDS 2023. She has an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and prior to her tenure at Mastercard, Debasmita was in the Innovation Team at J.P. Morgan &amp; Chase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-custom-opik-red-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6a0f093506b739352a934c628ca14f2e\">May 8, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-evaluation-driven-development-building-reliable-ai-systems\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--8)\">How to Evaluate a Large Language Model<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-opik is-style-opik--3\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Evaluating Large Language Models presents unique challenges due to their generative nature and lack of ground truth data. Traditional evaluation metrics used for discriminative models are often insufficient for assessing the quality, coherence, diversity, and usefulness of LLM-generated text. 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