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Neeral Beladia
Member of Technical Staff
Neeral Beladia is a Principal ML Engineer at Cohere, where he leads the development of domain-specific AI systems and custom models tailored to real-world enterprise needs. His work focuses on domain adaptation, continual pre-training, and post-training, advancing large language model capabilities across multiple languages, including Japanese, Korean, and Arabic, as well as in the code domain. At Cohere, he has developed scalable customization approaches built on the company’s core modeling foundations, enabling high-performance models that incorporate proprietary knowledge and deliver strong results in complex, domain-specific workflows.
With nearly two decades of experience in production machine learning and foundation model platforms, Neeral has led ML initiatives at Waymo, Google Health AI, YouTube, Airbnb, and eBay. Across these roles, he has consistently translated research advances into scalable, real-world systems that drive innovation and business impact.
With nearly two decades of experience in production machine learning and foundation model platforms, Neeral has led ML initiatives at Waymo, Google Health AI, YouTube, Airbnb, and eBay. Across these roles, he has consistently translated research advances into scalable, real-world systems that drive innovation and business impact.
Neeral Beladia — Mar 31, 2026
Ensemble and Cohere building the first RCM‑native healthcare LLM
Neeral Beladia, Alex Wang — Jul 08, 2025
AI benchmarks: A business guide to effective evaluation