AI advisor, trainer and researcher. I help organizations and individuals navigate AI, teach data science and quantum technologies, write books in Marathi and English, and do independent research on geometric deep learning.
I teach hard topics (quantum technologies, strategy and game theory, small-model AI) to non-specialists, with a book and a workshop behind each.
- Quantum computing: workshops on quantum computing with Qiskit, quantum-safe cryptography and, later, quantum
optimization, built on the open course material in
TeachingQuantumTech. - Game theory: the Marathi and English books, and workshops that turn them into practice.
- Frugal AI: small models on everyday hardware, with student projects, at
FrugalAI. - Personal: the study and practice of the Yoga Sutra and Yoga Nidra.
I run an Artificial Intelligence (AI) advisory service in the following modes:
- Consultancy: Helping organizations in the evolving AI landscape. 👉 More details (including commercials) here.
- Training: Helping individuals stay current with AI, ML, NLP, etc. 👉 More details (including commercials) here. The educational content used in training, covering Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, etc., has been open-sourced in the
TeachingDataSciencerepository. - Recruitment: Helping organizations in hiring pre-screened candidates with AI skills. 👉 More details (including commercials) here
I actively engage in personal research and collaborations with academic and industry partners on topics such as:
- ✅ Geometric Deep Learning Creating invariant representations for dimensionality reduction, see MidcurveNN. I am currently looking for MS / PhD students to take this further: the open problem is predicting geometry natively as graphs, where node positions can be learned but topology so far cannot. Two-page topic proposal.
- ✅ Frugal AI Small models on low-resource hardware: benchmarks and recipes (public, MIT), at
FrugalAI.
- Books I write. Sources and drafts live in
Publications: a Marathi trilogy with Sakal Prakashan (Artificial Intelligence, Mental Models, Game Theory), an English book, Practical Game Theory, with Apress, plus self-published AI-Rupe, a collection of my Marathi AI articles (available at Amazon India, Flipkart, Notion Press). - Data Science / AIML Open-sourced teaching material at
TeachingDataScience. - Quantum Technologies Course material (LaTeX + LMS content) at
TeachingQuantumTech. - Indian Knowledge Systems A completed study archive, including a full Patanjali Yoga Sutra seminar system (1 workshop + 6 seminars with cheat sheets), at
BharatVidya.
I strongly believe in giving back to society and raising public awareness about AI through:
- 🧑🏫 Pune AI Community Social group dedicated to disseminating AI-related knowledge, both online and offline (Pune) website, GitHub.
- 👯 Mid-Career Transition Counseling (to Data Science). My Story | TEDx Talk | Path
- 💬 Open Office Hours Saturdays, 1:30–3:30 PM IST, for technical or career coaching.
- 📫 LinkedIn I regularly post about AI/ML and related topics. I’d love it if you follow me there. 😊
- ⚡ Medium Blogs Read or follow my writings here
- 🎤 Public Talks I speak at various forums and events. Check out my YouTube playlist of talks.
- 🧑🏫 Advisory Internship for eng students, aspirants of 'Road to GDE (Google Developer Expert)', and member of BoS (Board of Studies)
Feel free to reach out via email at: my firstnamelastname at yahoo dot com
Thank you! 🙏