One of the pioneering contributors in Machine Learning and AI, Parag is an entrepreneur and consultant in knowledge innovation, ML, Innovation strategy. He is a Tedx speaker, husband of a bright doctor and above all a dreamer. He loves to write poetry & articulate his creative thoughts to deliver them through his passionate talks. He is also an author of best-selling Innovation strategy & AI books. An avid reader, Parag was conferred higher doctorate DSc by UGSM monarch, Switzerland. He is world's first higher doctorate in this subject.Parag’s ML ideas resulted in pioneering products and have become commercially successful and produced unprecedented impact. Parag helped underperforming professionals, start-ups and students to transform into happy and passionate warriors. Fellow of the IET and IETE, he is recipient of Oriental Foundation Scholarship, distinguished alumnus award WCE, Sangli & was nominated for prestigious Bhatnagar award in 2013 and 2014. He was also awarded IETE-KR Phadke award for innovative entrepreneurship and research in 2019. Parag has published over 300 research papers/articles in peer reviewed journals/conferences. He invented over a dozen patents and authored 14 books (with world’s best publishers like Bloomsbury, IEEE, Wiley, Prentice Hall, Springer, OUP etc.). His book YD-YearDown was adapted for a TV serial by Sony TV. His poem collection was appreciated by one of the greatest romantic poets of all times late Mangesh Padgaonkar. Parag’s book “Knowledge Innovation Strategy” was listed as a game changing business book by Hindustan Times. Niigata Times Japan mentioned that ‘it is enlightening experience for readers’ – It has foreword and endorsement by Dr. FC Kohli and Ratan Tata. Parag was the first PhD guide in Computer Engineering at COEP, Pune Uni. and has guided 20 PhDs. As an AI consultant he helped to build game changing products for companies like Envestnet, TechM etc. Parag founded startups iKnowlation, India, Kvinna Ltd NZ and created social value through innovation. He is a prolific speaker and is associated with many technical and B-schools of repute like IITs, IIMs, Tokyo Int. Uni. Japan and Masaryk Uni, Brno – Czech etc. He has been working closely with remote technical institutes in India to inculcate research, thinking and entrepreneurship skills. He is a pioneer of concepts of Systemic ML, Reverse Hypothesis ML and Choice computing. Specialties: Innovation & Business Strategy, Research in AI and Machine Learning, Knowledge Innovation, Data & Text Analytics, Business Analytics