AI research & engineering leadership
I lead teams that turn AI research into enterprise products.
Principal Architect at kAIgentic, leading AI research and architecture for agentic AI in banking. Previously, I led five AI products at Avesha from concept to production for Fortune 500 enterprises, after research at IBM Research and the Indian Institute of Science.
16+
years in AI research
3
AI teams led across three geographies
30%+
lower cloud costs with RL-driven autoscaling
3x
LLM inference throughput with GPU orchestration
Scope
What I lead
kAIgentic · now
Agentic AI for banking
AI research and architecture for process mapping, process transformation, and agentic AI. Products I led from inception are in proof-of-concept engagements with SMBC.
Avesha · 2021–2025
AI infrastructure products
Five products from concept to production, including RL-driven Kubernetes autoscaling, GPU orchestration for LLM inference, and agentic SRE and QA automation.
Leadership
Teams and research partnerships
Three AI teams across India, Romania, and Canada; recruiting and mentoring engineers; research collaborations with IIT Bombay and IIIT Bangalore; two five-year research grants.
Customers
Products I led are used by
Fortune 500 enterprises
- NVIDIA
- JPMorgan Chase
- CVS Health
- Kroger
- T-Mobile
- Supermicro
Across telecom, media, security, cloud infrastructure, and financial services
- Cox
- Akamai
- Nutanix
- Amagi
- McAfee
- Finvi
Global banks: proof-of-concept engagements with SMBC at kAIgentic.
Research
A research foundation
My leadership rests on research depth. I co-wrote two five-year research grants, published at AAMAS, IEEE CDC, and ECAI, and contributed to U.S. patents, before carrying that work into products used by enterprises.
2
five-year research grants
14
publications
8
patents and patent filings
3
IBM awards for research and client value
Updates
News
- 2026 Products I led at kAIgentic from inception entered proof-of-concept engagements with SMBC.
- Dec 2025 Joined kAIgentic as Principal Architect, leading AI research and architecture for agentic AI in banking process transformation.
- Dec 2025 Completed nearly five years at Avesha, leading AI research and product creation across five products used by Fortune 500 enterprises.
- Oct 2023 Paper on truthful and equitable lateral transshipment in multi-retailer systems published at ECAI 2023.
- 2023 U.S. Patent 11,805,073 granted: controlling placement of workloads of an application within an application environment.
- Jul 2022 Paper on inventory pooling using deep reinforcement learning published at IEEE SCC 2022.
Earlier news
- Mar 2021 Joined Avesha as a founding member of the engineering team.
- Feb 2021 Paper on optimization transactions on permissioned blockchains accepted at IEEE ICBC 2021.
- Dec 2020 Short paper extending attention mechanisms to multi-agent constrained reinforcement learning accepted at AAMAS 2021.
- Sep 2020 Paper on collaborative shipping accepted at IEEE Blockchain 2020.
- Jul 2020 Project I mentored in my Neuromatch Academy teaching pod featured in the course highlights [video, from 5:57].
- Jul 2020 Two presentations on blockchain solutions accepted at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2020.
- Jul 2020 Awarded my first Patent Plateau by IBM.
- Jun 2020 Teaching Assistant at Neuromatch Academy 2020 [certificate].
- Feb 2020 Paper on smart grids accepted at IEEE PES ISGT-Europe 2020.
- Jul 2019 Smart-grid research featured in Research Matters.
- Jan 2019 Two short papers on multi-agent reinforcement learning accepted at AAMAS 2019.
- Jul 2018 Papers accepted at IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE CDC 2018.
- Jul 2017 Joined IBM Research India to work on blockchain and smart contracts.
- Dec 2016 Presented work on Hessian estimation for simulation optimization at the 55th IEEE CDC, Las Vegas [slides].
Let’s talk
Always glad to exchange ideas on agentic AI, multi-agent systems, and turning research into products, or to connect on research collaborations and speaking.