Manikandan Ravikiran
AI Research Scientist (Lead) at Thoughtworks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolManikandan Ravikiran is an AI research scientist and team lead with nine years of experience building and deploying deep learning and NLP systems across industry R&D and global consultancy. He progressed through technical research roles at Hitachi into senior research engineering and researcher positions before joining ThoughtWorks Global AI Research as Lead, blending hands-on model development with guiding applied research. His academic background includes an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and ongoing PhD work at IIT Mandi, reflecting strong foundations in machine learning and interactive intelligence. Known for translating research prototypes into production-ready solutions, he often bridges experimentation and engineering rigor for enterprise-scale AI. Based in Bengaluru, he brings both deep technical fluency and practical product sensibility to multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at PES UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science (Machine Learning and Interactive Intelligence), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (Machine Learning and Interactive Intelligence) at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi
Github Skills (19)
human-computer-interaction10
interaction10
arxiv9
educational-technology9
text-classification7
deep-learning6
python6
machine-learning5
language-model4
temporal2
testing2
multiclass-classification2
object-detection2
faster-rcnn1
stream1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
manikandan-ravikiran/squeezeDet
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
A tensorflow implementation for SqueezeDet, a convolutional neural network for object detection with improvements
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
deep-learningconvolutional-neural-networkobject-detectionconvolutionalmask-rcnn
manikandan-ravikiran/HCI_Notes
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Notes for Human Computer Interaction course - CS6750
Contributions:79 commits, 1 PR, 73 pushes in 3 months
human-computerinteractionnoteshuman-computer-interaction
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