Dr. Manish Mehta

AI Enterprise Vision

Over 20 years experience guiding successful large-scale deployments of AI technologies including autonomous systems, robots, and virtual agents

Areas of expertise:

- Autonomous systems - Led technology strategy for commercial mower company
- Intelligent agents - Pioneered virtual agents transforming customer service at multinational
  corporations
- Robotics - Oversaw robot deployments in manufacturing facilities
- Voice assistants - Built AI-powered assistants for construction workers
- Healthcare robots - Advised Tech startup developing robotic companions to assist seniors with medication
- AI Strategy and Cultural transformation

I offer organizations:

- Identifying clear AI objectives aligned to business goals
- Assembling cross-functional teams combining AI, business, and domain expertise
- Guiding pragmatic AI implementations focused on improving efficiency, safety, and customer
   experience
- Advising on ethical, responsible AI adoption strategies
- Leveraging experience deploying AI solutions across industries from healthcare to manufacturing

Let's connect to make your organization's AI vision an operational reality!

Chief AI Strategist: Driving Pragmatic AI Implementations

Creator AI Studio

With over 20 years as an AI innovation pioneer, I create imaginative AI experiences by taking early stage technologies from concept to implementation.

My expertise includes:

a. Conversational AI - Created interactive museum exhibits and theme park characters
b. Robotics - Developed robotic assistants and experiences like Turtle Talk AI system
c. Intuitive Creation Tools - Enabled non-programmers to build AI behaviors through easy interfaces
d. Immersive Experience Design - Architected AI gaming blending conversation and immersion

I offer:

- Innovation Strategy: Guided projects from research to requirements to design like Pirates of the
  Caribbean ride reimagining
- Team Assembly: Brought together cross-functional talent to develop experiences like robot 
   companions for seniors
- User-Focused Development: Conducted ongoing testing and feedback with users during creation of 
   museum exhibits
- Entrepreneurial Leadership: Scaled innovations from prototype to full deployment such as the AI 
   gaming experience

My passion is pioneering experiences that fascinate and inspire audiences by leveraging AI and emerging tech.

If you seek a leader who thrives on the frontier turning early stage technologies into imaginative implementations, let's make the extraordinary happen together!

Chief AI Creator: Transforming Emerging Tech into Engaging AI Experiences

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Employee Number 1 at the CTO office and Help Build the company’s first-ever CTO Office. Help Lead Innovation Ecosystem to $1.2B/yr revenue. 3 Years FastCo and AII “Most Innovative” Company

- Developing multi-year research, technology and commercialization strategies across emerging areas 
   like AI, IoT, Industry 4.0, robotics and autonomous systems.

- Building partnerships between business units (Security, Healthcare, Industrial, Consumer) and functions
   (Sales, Marketing, IT, R&D).

- Managing cross-functional teams of 50-150 people on strategic projects.

- Conducting M&A technical due diligence, competitive intelligence, quantitative and qualitative studies.

- Establishing an external ecosystem network with VC firms, startups, and commercial companies across 
  the Bay Area and beyond, leading to successful partnerships and investments with 15+ organizations
  including Plug n Play, Baidu Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, and more.
  
- Driving well-received technology strategy initiatives on AI, ML, IoT, and AI conversational tech for the
  CEO.

Technical Director of Innovation, Office of the CTO

AI+ Accelerator TechCode - US

AI+ accelerator at Techcode consists of startups that are focused on the application of artificial intelligence technologies: voice recognition, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision and gesture control to all the different industry verticals, e.g. robotics, virtual reality/augmented reality, smart home, IoT, medical device and wearables.

Startup Mentor

Accenture Technology Labs

- Supported development of visionary "liquid workforce" transformation in 2012, enabling Accenture
   crowdsourcing initiative. Platform catalyzed 15K+ hours and mobilized 100K people.

- Liquid workforce became a smash hit theme of Accenture Vision 2016, igniting 14K+ social media 
   mentions, 230+ client downloads, 112M reach. Amplified by 638 influencers like IBM and futurist Gerd
   Leonhard.

- Led research, strategy, and UX design to build Accenture's crowdsourcing capability across business areas. 

- Defined go-to-market strategy. Reported progress to leadership.

- Led patented design of new crowdsourcing offering curating on-demand teams. Transformed CIO recruiting
   and teams.

- Guided pilots analyzing coordination challenges with internal and external crowd workers. Led prototype
  development.

- Advised crowdtesting vendor pilots (Applause, Passbrain). Guided analysis for product insights. Managed 
   tools for new crowdtesting capability. Led pilots at top clients.

- Shaped design and guided development of a platform to enrich unstructured data via paid/free crowd work  
   and automation. Led vendor pilots.

- Drove multiple patented ideas advancing intellectual property. Filed inventions.

- Forged partnerships with vendors, R&D, and academia.

- Spearheading innovation blitz for Industry X.0 across 5 labs, reimagining products with emerging tech like AI
  and robotics.

- Pioneering human-robot innovation teams to conceptualize, design, manufacture and service products. 

-  Created behavior design strategies to motivate user participation for Fortune 100 clients. Recognized by  
   client with top award.

The Human-Centered AI Innovator - Unlocking Human Needs through UX and AI

American Cancer Society

Providing advice, leadership and direction to American Cancer Society to further the Society’s progress by leveraging the skills and talents of volunteers to add value to and complete strategic initiatives and projects.  The role involves advising the society to increase its appeal and competitive advantage in the volunteer marketplace, save the Society time and money on project initiatives, and offer opportunities to further develop staff and volunteers.

The goal of the program is to redefine volunteer opportunities to include Skills-Based Volunteering (SBV) to increase the society's market relevance and competitive advantage. The SBV program supports both SBV and episodic volunteers and meets the outcomes of the Board accepted recommendation. The purpose of the Society’s Skills-Based Volunteer(SBV) Advisory Team is to provide advice, consultation, leadership and direction to the Society’s strategy on Skills-Based Volunteerism.  The team is charged with developing a long term, enterprise-wide rollout for Skills-Based Volunteers.

Strategic Advisor

Georgia Institute of Technology

- Pioneered trailblazing augmented reality app - deployed and delighted hundreds of diverse users including actors, virtual world members, and non-programmers.

- Architected award-winning UX design thrilling 150+ visitors with innovative augmented reality gaming experience at UCI Beall Center. Transported players into resolving virtual character conflicts.

- Spearheaded software architecture and pioneering Wizard UIs controlling one-of-a-kind experience. Conducted rigorous qualitative and quantitative evaluation.

- Pioneered first Web 2.0 app empowering non-programmers to create, modify and share game character AI behaviors. Developed advanced AI dynamically enhancing user-generated AI.

- Deployed live and piloted by hundreds of user groups: actors from School of Theatre at Illinois State University, non-programmers from virtual world Second Life and Non-Programmers.

- Led extensive user research and crafted detailed personas. Spearheaded iterative prototyping of breakthrough end-user authoring tool and AI approach.

- Rigorously and holistically evaluated pioneering experience through qualitative and quantitative UX research methods. Dove deep into extensive data gathering and analysis.

Next-Gen AI Experience Designer

Disney Research

Transforming Turtle Talk Character Experiences

- Pioneering innovative system enabling multiple operators to engage AI characters, slashing costs.
- Uncovering guest needs and motivations through insightful operator interviews and observations at Disney Land.
- Rigorously evaluating developed system through extensive usability studies with operators and guests.

Reimagining Pirates of the Caribbean Guest Experience

- Energizing Pirates experience through vigorous ideation and prototypes.
- Accelerating cutting-edge Pirates research, assembling university and industry teams.

Theme Park Experience Innovator - Infusing UX with AI

University of Southern Denmark

- Pioneered Museum Exhibit Advancing State-of-the-Art in Conversational AI - Enabled first-of-its-kind 
speech interaction between children and AI-controlled Hans Christian Andersen.

- Led insights-driven Wizard of Oz studies, observations, and interviews to deeply understand young participants. Crafted detailed user personas and storyboards bringing exhibit vision to life.

- Spearheaded iterative wireframing, mockups, and development of breathtaking final exhibit. Published top-tier peer-reviewed papers.

- Conducted rigorous qualitative and quantitative evaluation uncovering actionable insights to shape future roadmap. Translated findings into pioneering recommendations.

- Developed cutting-edge advances in speech recognition, NLU, dialog management, and gestural coordination—unlocking seamless speech-based interaction.

- Exhibit captivated audiences and received extensive press for pushing scientific and engineering boundaries. Addressed key challenges to inspire future innovation

Pioneer of First-of-its-Kind AI Experiences

Steria

Software programmar

Reimagined Disney Attractions with AI | Pioneered Conversational AI Museum Exhibits | Self-Driving Car Degree | Corporate AI & Robotics Deployment & Strategies | Speaking Human, AI & Business over two decades

I speak human, business & AI and build AI solutions that nail all 3; learned and practiced over 20 years at the school of hard-knocks pioneering first-of-its-kind AI experiences including:

- Next-gen AI powered system for Turtle Talk with Crush
- Reimagining Pirates of the Caribbean ride with AI based storytelling
- AI powered speaker for construction workers
- Cobots and mobile robots deployed at manufacturing plants
- Medication compliance robot companion at senior living facilities
- Conversational AI powered museum exhibit at Hans Christian Andersen Museum
- AI powered immersive conversation gaming experience at UCI Beall Center Musuem
- Self-driving car development at Udacity
- Autonomous mower technology strategy
- Conversational agents for customer service 
- AI strategy and cultural transformation at large multinationals
- AI powered technology enabling non-programmers to create, modify and share game character AI 
  behaviors


Industries Covered: Manufacturing, Security, Healthcare, Entertainment, Creator Economy

Technologies Covered: Self-Driving Cars, Robotics, Human-Centered AI, Conversational AI, Crowdsourcing, Industry4.0

Work presented at White House and featured in USA Today, MSNBC, Washington Post, Computer Technology, InformationWeek, Bloomberg, Venture Beat and Business Wire

Partnering with me, you gain:

•      A human-centered designer - translating user insights into exceptional experiences
•	A business strategist - providing diligence to steer initiatives, quantify ROI, and minimize risks
•	An AI/ML expert - architecting, deploying and optimizing systems from prototype to production
•	20+ years experience spearheading innovations from concept to commercialization
•	Investments analysis quantifying technical feasibility and commercial viability
•	A technology pioneer - adopting emerging capabilities like robotics and autonomy
•	Cross-functional leadership uniting diverse teams to deliver complex initiatives
•	Trend tracking identifying high-potential focus areas to capitalize on

I would enjoy grabbing a virtual coffee to explore how we can work together to bring AI innovations to life - the future is bright! Let's connect.

ThirdEye Data - Building Real-world AI Solutions at Big Data Scale.

Provide technical support in prospective customer sales calls. Design AI solutions and write technical proposals. Provide technical leadership and direction.
● Wrote proposal AI Chatbot solution for enterprise search using Retrieval Augmented Generation based customization.
● Wrote proposal for  a Deep Learning based predictive model for battery life for Stryker, a medical device manufacturer.
●Wrote proposal for Generative AI solution for building design and architecture using text and text to image Generative AI models.
● Wrote proposal  for a document identification and processing system using Deep Learning for Quest Analytic, a healthcare services company, including feature engineering, model training and deployment 
● Designed a Reinforcement Learning based control system and wrote the proposal for a glass coating process for Glas Trosch as part of a solution proposal for them.
● Responsible for Tensorflow Deep Learning based  solutions  for computer vision  problems for Southern California Edison, as part of an automated power grid infrastructure maintenance system.
● Responsible for building Machine Learning based NLP and search solutions for various Microsoft clients

Consulting Chief Data Scientist

Self

I own several open source  Big Data and Data Science projects using Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Kafka, NOSQL databases and the related ecosystem. These are some of the important and active projects. They are hosted on github https://github.com/pranab

● sifarish   
Hadoop and Storm based recommendation and personalization engine implementation including content  based and collaborative filtering algorithms
● visitante   
Hadoop based web click stream log analytic, log mining and  customer and marketing analytic solutions.
● avenir     
Machine learning algorithm implementation on Hadoop, Spark and Storm  for exploratory statistical analysis, classification, optimization and reinforcement learning. 
● beymani 
Hadoop and Storm based outlier and fraud detection solution for individual data points  and sequences.
● hoidla     
Real time analytic algorithms including  outlier detection and approximate queries that can be used by Storm or Spark Streaming
● ruscello  
Time series analytic with Spark Streaming.
● chombo 
 ETL solution on Hadoop and Spark, including data profiling, validation and transformation and various utilities

Big Data and Data Science Open Source Project Owner

Southern California Edison (SCE)

Worked through ThirdEye Data
● Responsible for Machine Learning based technical solution for detecting anomaly in power grid system, so that risk can be mitigated before any catastrophic event.
● Responsible for design of  Tensorflow Deep Learning based object detection system for power line pole and associated structures.
● Responsible for design of image bluriness and occlusion detection  solutions.

Consulting Data Scientist

Engagez

● Responsible for enhancing virtual event hosting platform with Machine Learning driven match making, personalization and recommendation.

Elephant Scale

● Responsible for content creation and speaking for webinar series on Machine Learning, including Deep Learning  driven Anomaly Detection

Author and Speaker

Stealth Startup

AI Driven Real Time Business Operation Monitoring and Risk Mitigation Startup

Co Founder

Microsoft

Work done through ThirdEye Data for various Microsoft customers
● Responsible for building Legal Domain specific search engine leveraging Azure Cognitive Search , Azure Blob Storage, Named Entity Recognition, Topic modeling, Semantic Search and Search result re rank learning for European Human Rights Court.
● Responsible for a Text Summary extraction solution using Azure Blob Storage, NLTK, ScikitLearn and Gensim for Myriad, Australia.

Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC.

Responsible for pre sales client meeting, requirement gathering, solution architecture definition and guiding implementation
● Enhanced Centerity monitoring  platform with  anomaly detection capabilities, leveraging my open source Spark based anomaly detection solution.
● Architect for a Cyber Security product,  leveraging Machine Learning, NLP(NLTK, Gensim), Search Technology, Ontology, JanusGraph, Solr and Python  for Merlin International, a government vendor
● Provide guidance for a medical image recognition system based on CNN and TensorFlow for Resolve Digital, a startup
● Architect for workforce schedule optimizer using Simulated Annealing algorithm for Innova, a government  vendor.
● Re engineering an IoT and operational data analytic platform for Nimble Storage, a storage manufacturer with Java, Kafka, Spark, Redis and Vertica. Real time ETL with Spark Streaming  and analytic with SparkSQL.
● Building a multi channel campaign management system with Java, Hadoop and Couchbase for Freedom Pops, a virtual mobile service provider. Optimize  campaign  with Reinforcement Learning .  Machine Learning driven Prescriptive Analytic  to improve campaigns.
● Reviewed and evaluated Nokia's Big Data and Data Science platform architecture based on Kafka, Storm, Cassandra and Hadoop
● Developed Hadoop demo for Microsoft on  web click stream analytic to run on Microsoft Azure platform. Used in Hadoop Summit. Developed web click stream analytic map reduce application  used in Hadoop training offered by Hortonworks.
● Developed course material and taught classes on Hadoop and MapReduce. Taught class in HBase.

Data Science Consultant

Bedrock Analytics

● Building retail time series forecasting model to analyze product performance  for CPG manufacturers in Python  using pandas, fbprophet, statsmodels and scikit

Formcept

● Formcept is a fast growing start up that offers a Big Data Analytic platform. My role is technical advising in Data Science.

Data Science Technical Advisor

● Data Science consultant with expertise in Data Engineering, Machine Learning, AI, Cloud, Big Data
● Decades of experience in multiple business domains and myriad of technologies and platforms 
● Owner of multiple open source  Data Science projects 
● Life long learner. Active blogger, blogging on Data Science topics and solutions
● Statrup adviser, advising on Big Data and  Data Science strategies and solutions
● Strong technical leadership, mentoring  and interpersonal skills. 
● Very result oriented hands on, believe in leading by doing and showing.  
● Skillfully balances between meeting resource and time constraints, while doing it right
● Self-motivated with an entrepreneurial mindset
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills
● Outstanding analytical and  problem solving skills 
● Very proactive in learning and leveraging emerging technologies 
● MS in Computer Science
● US citizen
● Open to consulting contract only. Can travel but not relocate.

● Specialties: 
● Business Domains -- ECommerce, Supply Chain,  Manufacturing, Banking and Financial, Marketing, TeleCom, Digital Media and Broadcast, Online Advertisement, Healthcare, System and Enterprise Management and  Scientific Applications

● Technology -- Spark, Spark Streaming, Hadoop,Storm, Flume, Hive, Cassandra, Couchbase, HBase, MongoDB, Solr, ElasticSearch,Kafka, Machine Learning, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, IoT, ETL, Realtime Streaming,Java, Scala, Python, JEE, SOA,  Spring, Hibernate,  ESB, BPM, Oracle Database, MySQL, XML, JSON, JavaScript,  Java, Python, C++

Pranab Ghosh

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia has been selling Nvidia stocks daily for months while publicly hyping AI. That’s how confident he is about the bright future of AI. 😎

#ai #genai #nvidia #stock #ceo

AI Consultant || MIT Alumni || Entrepreneur || Open Source Project Owner || Blogger || Interested in Cognitive Science

Open article: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sold about USD 13 million of stock "per day" for months by moneycontrol.com

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang sold about USD 13 million of stock "per day" for months

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