Founder & Principal Investigator
A researcher building institutional AI.
The vision, scholarship and philosophy behind SPARKS Lab — and the trajectory that brought it to NIT Tiruchirappalli.
Biography
Research interests
A message from the founder
"We believe the next decade of AI will be defined not by who builds the largest models, but by who builds the most trustworthy, interpretable and consequential ones. SPARKS Lab exists to do that work, here in India, with students who will lead it."
Founder by the numbers
The Journey
Founded SPARKS Lab
Established the laboratory to advance research in AI and knowledge systems with national-scale ambition.
Distinguished Research Fellow
Recognized internationally for foundational contributions to explainable AI and neuro-symbolic reasoning.
Associate Professor
Joined the faculty with a focus on intelligent systems and knowledge representation.
Postdoctoral Research
Postdoctoral fellowship focused on multi-modal representation learning.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Dissertation on neuro-symbolic reasoning and large-scale knowledge representation.
M.Tech in CSE
Master's degree with research focus on probabilistic graphical models.