Manish Kumar Thota is a Generative AI Data Scientist at S&P Global, where he builds NLP and multimodal systems powered by LLMs, agents, and MLOps pipelines. He’s also an open-source contributor through Google Summer of Code, working on video annotation tools at the intersection of LLMs and machine learning. With hands-on experience in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, and scalable GenAI systems, Manish brings a strong applied research lens to industrial AI challenges.