My passion in applying emerging technologies to find solutions to complex problems dates back to 1992, when I was one of the few persons to have attempted applying Artificial Intelligence in agriculture. The application was in predicting drought conditions using satellite and ground truth data.Come 2016, with the exponential rise in compute power, AI began to show its power! This time, driven by confidence of past success, it took a couple of years to convince myself to take a major decision to change the course of my journey towards entrepreneurship. Beginning with a bit of a struggle in adapting to the startup culture, I founded Tvasta Analytix, with a vision to help customer address their pain points using AI and evangelise this technology across the engineering faculty and organisations through workshops and trainingsIn line with the above vision, our first successful AI solution was accomplished to resolve one of the most complex pain points faced by a Warren Buffet company! Thereafter, we delivered AI solutions across diverse industrial domains - Energy, Food, Healthcare, Transport & Logistics , Manufacturing, FMCG and Automotive industries. Trained over 1000 engineers mostly from rural engineering colleges, conducted several AI workshops to Govt Departments such as HAL, Defence, etc.The link below is a recording of a NASSCOM sponsored webinar I delivered a couple of years back, which provides an overview of our AI capabilities (some of them delivered through my association with a US startup):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfxCRRcl0NA&list=PLihUpeQL485mmuuvSeF8_5yReG3ytNvvS&index=13Today, our in-depth experience in delivering diverse AI driven industrial solutions, has enabled us to create our flagship AI application prototype builder ‘FlexMI’ (Flexible Machine Intelligence) that can transform a business use case into a near-MVP full stack working prototype within just a few days! More about this will be posted soon.

Consultation on Applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Industrial Automation - special focus on implementing Emerging Technologies for Digital Transformation of Industries leading to Industry4.0. Currently consulting one of the biggest commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer for augmenting their Industrial Computer Vision requirements with Artificial Intelligence.

Primarily wanted to take a break for about a year to focus on my family, especially my children who were in their critical stages of their career. Given quality time to my daughter whom I coached to position her career for furthering her academic interests towards an MS program at UNCC. Also coached and encouraged her to participate in the MIT Media Lab Virtual Realty Hackathon at Boston (Jan 2019). She not only got selected amongst 400 world-wide participants but also cracked it with a Best Idea award in the Automotive Sector. Further, coached my son who was in the 12th Std to help create a "designer" career for himself in his line of interest. Today, his career plan for the next 5 years is fixed. He is heading to University of Waterloo, CA, in Fall 2019, to complete his Bachelor's Degree in CS. A year of dedicated investment of my time and effort on my children has paid off very well - a Happy and Fulfilled Dad indeed!!It may not be out of place to mention that a year of proximity and service-on-demand for my 89-year young mother was most satisfying experience of performing a son's duty, which could not have been possible without this precious break! Meanwhile, I chose to refresh and expand my skills on AI/ML, Data and Video Analytics through self-practice as well as providing "Free" consultancy to several Indian and overseas Startup companies

Solution Integration Test - Enterprise and Managed Services

Image Processing of Satellite Images, Statistical Analyses, Geographical Information System(GIS), Remote Sensing Data Scientist. First to apply AI/ML in Drought and Yield Prediction for the State of Karnataka and Andhra PradeshAlso worked for ~ 2 years in ISRO Satellite Center, Bangalore. major focus: Using CAD/CAM for Satellite Structural Analyses, Computer Vision applications, etc