Praveen Pankajakshan
Chief AI Scientist at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolPraveen Pankajakshan is a Chief AI Scientist with 14+ years applying signal and image processing, Bayesian analysis and machine learning to agriculture, energy, healthcare and microscopy. He has led AI teams at CropIn, Corteva/DowDuPont and Shell, launched the Cropin AI Lab for global earth-observation solutions, and now drives stealth research-product efforts at UrbanKisaan. Equally at home in academia and industry, he has held visiting roles at Harvard and Pasteur, advised national AI centres and mentored students through professorships and research fellowships. His strengths combine AI strategy for CXOs, building lean high-impact teams under uncertainty, and translating physics-based models into production ML systems. Beyond publications and patents, he has a track record of cross-sector collaborations (from Planet/AWS to IITs) and initiatives that fuse remote sensing with practical agritech outcomes. Notably, his background in optical and time-frequency modeling informs unusually rigorous approaches to noisy, small-plot satellite and physiological data.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology RoorkeeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Université Côte d'AzurDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Institute Nationale de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA)M.S, Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University
English, French, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam
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Github contributions (5)
praveenpankaj/Fluorescence-Microscope-PSF
Nov 2011 - Aug 2022
Contributions:39 commits, 2 pushes in 10 years 10 months
praveenpankaj/ML-For-Satellite-Imaging
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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