Parag Kulkarni

Parag is a marathon runner, Tedx speaker, husband of a bright doctor and above all a dreamer. He loves to write poetry and articulate his creative and innovative thoughts and deliver them through his passionate talks. He is also an entrepreneur, Machine Learning researcher and author of best-selling Innovation Strategy, ML and Data science books. An avid reader, Parag holds PhD from IIT Kharagpur (2001), management education from IIM Kolkata and was conferred higher doctorate DSc by UGSM monarch, Switzerland (2010). He is the first higher doctorate in the area of knowledge innovation. Parag’s machine learning ideas resulted in pioneering products and have become commercially successful and produced unprecedented impact. He delivered over one thousand keynote addresses and 200+ tutorials across the globe. His work on Systemic Machine Learning published by IEEE is widely cited. Over 1000 institutes and 10,00,000+ professionals benefitted from Parag’s talks, research and systemic consultations. Parag helped underperforming professionals and students to transform into happy and passionate warriors. Fellow of the IET, IETE, and senior member IEEE, Parag is recipient of Oriental Foundation Scholarship and was nominated for prestigious Bhatnagar award in 2013 and 2014. He was also awarded IETE-KR Phadke award for innovative entrepreneurship and research in 2019. Parag has published over 300+ research papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences: (https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=dvi_iwEAAAAJ&hl=en), He invented over a dozen patents and authored 14 books (with publishers like Bloomsbury, IEEE, Wiley, Prentice Hall, Oxford University Press, etc.): (https://www.amazon.in/Parag-Kulkarni/e/B002U66T7K). His book YD – YearDown portrays interesting perspective on education and was adapted for TV serial by Sony Marathi by well-known movie director Sameer Patil. His poem collection was specially appreciated by poet late Mangesh Padgaonkar. Parag’s book “Knowledge Innovation Strategy” was listed as a game changing business book by Hindustan Times. It has foreword and endorsement with special acclamation by Dr. FC Kohli and Ratan Tata. Parag was the first PhD guide in Computer Engineering at COEP, Pune and has guided 20 PhD candidates. He has over 25 years of experience in technologies, product building and applications of AI and ML to different verticals. In the past, he headed research divisions of many companies including Siemens, IDeaS, Capsilon, etc. As an AI consultant he helped to build game changing products for companies Envestent, TechMahindra, UST Global, Agrisk etc. He founded startups iKnowlation – India, Kvinna New Zealand and created social value through innovation and research. Parag is a prolific speaker and is associated with many technical and B-schools of repute like IITs, IIMs, Tokyo Int. University Japan and Masaryk University, Brno – Czech Republic etc. He is a pioneer of concepts of Systemic Machine Learning, Reverse Hypothesis Machine Learning, Context Vector Machines and Deep Explorative Machine Learning. He has helped as AI and ML consultant and innovation strategist to over two dozen organizations in Singapore, US, Japan and India. He worked on social good and developed over dozen products for in health care and education with focus on creating value at Bottom of Pyramid.