Summary
Kanad Basu is a mathematician-turned-data scientist and entrepreneur with a decade of experience building AI, ML, and data products across industry and academia. As Co-Founder & Managing Partner at ArrowsUP and leader in multiple institutions, he designs practical LLM and computer-vision solutions for OCR, topic modeling, and medical analytics while also driving go-to-market and product measurement strategies. He judges complex problems through a rigorous quantitative lensโstemming from a PhD in Computational and Applied Mathematicsโand has translated that research pedigree into awarded DoD grants and production-grade anomaly detection and OCR systems. An experienced instructor and program designer, he has shaped graduate curricula in NLP, LLMs, and analytics at USC, Arizona State, and George Mason, mentoring students to deliver real-world AI projects. Beyond tech, he co-leads the Institute of Breast Diseasesโ community platform and AI-backed decision tools, blending social impact with technical depth. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves seamlessly from theoretical models to shipping measurable product impact.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics with specialization in Operation Research, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computational and Applied Mathematics with specialization in Operation Research at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur
M.S., Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, M.S., Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas-Pan American
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational and Applied Mathematics at University of South Carolina
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Major in Mathematics, Minor in Physics & Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Major in Mathematics, Minor in Physics & Chemistry at Presidency University, Kolkata
English, bengali (native language), hindi, spanish (basic)