Educated at Stanford, IIT Delhi, and RPI (New York) in Computer Science and AI. Author of the textbook on Efficient AI published by Elsevier, Currently Global Head of AI & Analytics, Digital Business at HCLTech, Visiting Faculty at Shiv Nadar University, pursuing a PhD in Hallucinations in LLMs, and investing in AI ventures at 500 Startups.
20+ years of product development experience in the US, built B2C products for Walmart as Sr. Director of Global eCommerce, G2C products for Govt of India (AI for Farmers, AI for Justice, DigiPay, etc.) as R&D Head, and Healthcare AI Products at Stryker.
As entrepreneur, started Lore IO, VC backed Analytics startup (acquired by Alteryx) text 2 video startup RazorArts (acquired by SublimeAI), and CEO of an edtech blockchain startup. 
As an academic, co-taught Advanced Data Mining at Stanford in 2014 and guest-lectured at Wharton, UCLA, IIT Delhi, UIUC, and Amity University on Machine Learning, Search Systems, Cloud Computing, and Data Mining, published dozen papers and patents.