Speaker Bio
Nikhil has been a researcher all his life and is now leading the growth of AI and Quantum Computing research within Tech Mahindra. His area of business research is how quantum Computing, AI, and neuroscience would inspire the growth of AI and the next change in society, business, and for humanity. He has won numerous awards including the 2020, 2021, and 2023 Innovation Congress awards for the most innovative leader in India.
He is also a TEDx speaker and the author of a best-seller book – Courage, the Journey of an Innovator. One of his long-standing visions has been to enable machines to talk in the local Indian dialects. Most notably, he has spearheaded Project Indus, Tech Mahindra’s seminal effort to build Indic LLM (homegrown large language model), that was successfully launched globally in June 2024.
Nikhil holds a master’s degree in computing with a specialization in distributed computing, from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, and is an avid physicist.