Team

Harpal Parmar
CEO & Co-Founder

Harpal has more than 2 decades of global consulting and sales experience in technology and engineering including periods in the USA and the UK.
He feels as much at home in an office in Mumbai as in far-flung client operations in the Arctic, as long as he has the opportunity to connect with diverse stakeholders.
He has an MBA (Yale) and MS degrees from the United States and is found turning up the volume on classic rock when he gets a chance.

Shashi Kiran BP
CTO & Co-Founder

Shashi is our technology and NLU expert who is frequently found explaining the finer points of Natural Language Understanding to the larger team. With stints in the DRDO (Indian Army) and in startups where his team has solved some challenging computing problems such as Facebook bAbI. A Gold-medalist in his BTech studies (JNU), his 24-years of experience encompasses AI, IT Architecture, and Information Security.

Manmohan Singh
COO & Co-Founder

Manmohan has vast experience in technology, operations and general management. He’s the go-to person at AUI given his wide problem solving perspective across his leadership stints in the Indian Army and Technology startups over a 28-year career. Accompanying degrees in Technology and Business Management (IIM-A) is his rich knowledge of business and operations. He’s keen golfer when time permits.

Steven Shwartz
Senior Advisor

Dr. Steven Shwartz is an A.I. pioneer and a successful serial software entrepreneur. He started his A.I. career as a research faculty member at Yale University in 1979 and was a co-founder of multiple AI companies including Cognitive Systems, a Yale University spinout which was one of the earliest A.I. companies, and Esperant, which produced one of the leading business intelligence products of the 1990’s. A prolific writer, he obtained his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at the Johns Hopkins University and has a very deep understanding of symbolic A.I., Machine Learning and advances in the A.I. world. Steve enjoys tennis, hiking, and spending time with his three grandchildren.

Sankar K.G.
Knowledge Manager

Sankar's aptitude for language and modeling has been leveraged in AUI's knowledge-led solutioning. With a background of 7 years in areas such as business process support, procurement and knowledge modeling, Sankar has the diverse exposure that lends well to our knowledge team. A native of India's steel city Salem, he thrives on watching movies and reading whodunits when time permits.

Prashant
Developer

Prashant is a full stack software developer and a key part of our development team. His exposure to engineering, logic and software development, facilitates conceptualizing solutions and independent implementation. He enjoys trekking and reading besides solving intricate problems.

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Careers

Please apply if you are voracious reader, self motivated, ambitious, team-player, have risk appetite for high growth startup environment and can think out of the box. You should have insatiable quest for knowledge and above par general and common knowledge.
If you think you make the cut please go to our Careers page.

Saharsh Yashlaha
Advisor - Semantic AI

Saharsh is a key contributor to Knowledge A.I. Research and Development. His technical expertise is complemented by his penchant for trekking across North India or exploring neighborhood cafes.

Shashank Gupta
Advisor - Semantic AI

Shashank is a key part of our Knowledge A.I. think tank. Given his exposure in logic, linguistics and AI, he enjoys conceptualizing problems differently and implementing out of the box ideas. His favourite excursions include river rafting or trekking.

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