Omkar Thawakar
Founder And CTO at lawa.ai
Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolOmkar Thawakar is a founder and CTO with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-driven products and research systems, currently pursuing a PhD at MBZUAI while leading startups Lawa.ai and NutriGenics. He blends academic research in computer vision and generative models with practical engineering—shipping production web apps with Django and optimized deep learning solutions for edge devices like Android and Jetson. His background includes research collaborations at IIT Ropar and MBZUAI, where he developed GAN-based image-to-image systems and real-time model optimizations for industrial use. Passionate about knowledge transfer, he moves fluidly between R&D and product engineering to turn novel deep learning ideas into enterprise-grade applications such as context-aware AI chatbots. An avid ML enthusiast who also pursues interests in astrophysics and travel, he brings both entrepreneurial grit and a research-first mindset to solve applied AI problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology, Vishnupuri, NandedDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)
Github Skills (19)
temporal7
backbone7
segmentation6
computer-vision5
scale5
pytorch4
semantic-segmentation4
llm4
react4
instance-segmentation3
sequential3
nextjs3
transformers3
attention-mechanism1
image-classification1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OmkarThawakar/SR2GAN
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
OmkarThawakar/TWO-GENERATOR-GAN
Jun 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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