Ramanand Janardhanan Email & Phone Number

Pune Area, India

I help leaders, teams, and growth-oriented individuals find future relevance in a digital, distributed, and dynamic world, by helping them answer:1. “who should we be in the future?”2. “how will we be valuable in the future?”3. “how do we flourish in that future?”I have helped companies like VMware, IDeaS-a SAS company, and Icertis foster a culture of innovation, curiosity, and collaboration. I have trained leaders, intrapreneurs, engineers, and managers on future-relevant… Show more I help leaders, teams, and growth-oriented individuals find future relevance in a digital, distributed, and dynamic world, by helping them answer:1. “who should we be in the future?”2. “how will we be valuable in the future?”3. “how do we flourish in that future?”I have helped companies like VMware, IDeaS-a SAS company, and Icertis foster a culture of innovation, curiosity, and collaboration. I have trained leaders, intrapreneurs, engineers, and managers on future-relevant skills like decision-making under complexity, social advocacy, and using curiosity to spot new opportunities.I enable people and teams benefit from intelligent content consumption, both at an individual and team-level. I have facilitated imaginative and impactful leadership engagement programmes and offsites, especially based on books & popular culture. Show less

IZ helps you stay 'clued in' to an interesting world. I publish general awareness content through a daily quizletter, digital compilations, live events, and talks.

Pune Area, India

Simple Interest (a.k.a Thinq2Win) was an arm of CTQ that uses quizzing and curiosity to help brands, institutions, and events engage people they care about. I've set and conducted quizzes for the likes of:* Brands and companies like Google, Flipkart, British Library, and Cognizant* Institutions such as the top IIMs and IITs* Events such as the Pune International Literature Festival and the VLDB conference.I've been hosting quizzes since 2001. I'm the youngest winner… Show more Simple Interest (a.k.a Thinq2Win) was an arm of CTQ that uses quizzing and curiosity to help brands, institutions, and events engage people they care about. I've set and conducted quizzes for the likes of:* Brands and companies like Google, Flipkart, British Library, and Cognizant* Institutions such as the top IIMs and IITs* Events such as the Pune International Literature Festival and the VLDB conference.I've been hosting quizzes since 2001. I'm the youngest winner of the "Mastermind India" TV quiz (BBC World, in 2002) and featured as a 'guest panelist' on "Kaun Banega Crorepati" (Sony, 2014). Show less

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Designing and co-instructed two courses for budding entrepreneurs in the Post Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation1. A new foundational course to build habits & systems that can 'compound' over time. 2. Communicating using stories

I've published:* Short stories * Articles on cities, events, and places for weekend editions of Mint Lounge and magazines

Pune, India

In this period, I* traveled a small part of the world* set and conducted quizzes around India* contributed quiz questions for the world's biggest trivia quiz app* wrote non-fiction, on my own and as a freelancer* read widely* thought deeply

Pune

Member of CIO Lab, a global innovation and applied research group within IBM with interests in emerging technology applications for IBM. My principal work was on an application of IBM's Watson/DeepQA question-answering technology. I worked on problems such as:- finding, selecting, and ingesting unstructured textual data from within the enterprise- extracting data and meta-data from semi-structured documents (e.g. intelligently finding titles from word, powerpoint, and pdf… Show more Member of CIO Lab, a global innovation and applied research group within IBM with interests in emerging technology applications for IBM. My principal work was on an application of IBM's Watson/DeepQA question-answering technology. I worked on problems such as:- finding, selecting, and ingesting unstructured textual data from within the enterprise- extracting data and meta-data from semi-structured documents (e.g. intelligently finding titles from word, powerpoint, and pdf documents)- assessing quality of extracted content using statistical methods- looking at NLP & Machine Learning algorithms for use in the system- providing knowledge to the team on NLPRoles: technical leadership, exploration & research, design & development, internal training, project planning & communication, collaboration with a global teamTechnical areas: Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, and Machine LearningAlso contributed to internal innovation initiatives. Show less

Innovation and Applied Research Group member; Applying Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, Information Visualization, Design Thinking to solving problems involving technology+users+business.Working on areas such as Sentiment Analysis, Social Media Analysis, Knowledge Management, etc.

Team Lead (responsible for project deliveries and schedules); Software Engineer

M.Tech, Computer Science And It

Activities and Societies: Natural Language Processing Group, Quizzing, Lit Society I specialised in the area of natural language.

Be, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Member - BC Quiz Club (1997-2001), Editor of the English Section in the College Magazine "Abhiyanta" (1998-99).

Higher Secondary Certificate

I studied science and ranked 2nd in the Pune Division of the Maharashtra State Board.

High School