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Dr. Nisha Talagala
Leadership

Our Founder's Story

Dr. Nisha Talagala founded AIClub with a singular vision: to democratize Artificial Intelligence education. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry and as an expert in distributed systems and machine learning, she realized that the next generation needed a new kind of literacy.

The journey began when she noticed that while children were surrounded by AI from social media algorithms to voice assistants, they were not being taught how these systems actually worked or how they could build them themselves.

“We do not just teach kids how to code; we teach them how to think about the future. AI is the canvas, and their curiosity is the brush.”

Under Dr. Talagala's leadership, AIClub has grown from a local initiative into a global educational powerhouse, partnering with schools and organizations to ensure that every child, regardless of their background, has the opportunity to master the technology that is shaping our world.

Dr. Nisha Talagala
CEO & Founder, PhD from UC Berkeley

Our Team

Meet the experts helping shape our curriculum, product vision, and student outcomes.

Dr. Amit Gupta
Dr. Amit Gupta

Amit Gupta is the Head of Products at Pyxeda.ai. Amit has 20+ years of expertise in large-scale distributed systems design and development, and he was previously co-founder and CTO at Andale and Jasper. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and has 50+ patents covering various aspects of Computer Networking, Distributed Systems, and Security.

Dr. Sindhu Ghanta
Dr. Sindhu Ghanta

Sindhu Ghanta received the M.S. degree from Texas Tech University in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, USA, in 2014. She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with BIDMC and the Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, where she was involved in detection and classification of features from histopathological (breast cancer) images. She worked as a research scientist with Parallel Machines on monitoring the health of machine learning algorithms in production and has many publications on ML innovations. She currently works as the Head of Machine Learning in Pyxeda.

Ms. Shilpa Toro
Ms. Shilpa Toro

Shilpa Toro has a masters from San Jose State University and has several years of industry experience. She previously worked at ParallelM as a data scientist and now works with AIClub as a data scientist and engagement specialist.

How we are changing education

Combining professional pedagogy with cutting-edge technology to create an unparalleled learning environment.

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Project-Based Learning

Our courses move beyond the classroom—students start applying what they learn through practical builds from day one.

our mentor

Expert Mentors

Guided by PhDs and Silicon Valley veterans.

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Future Ready

Developing critical thinking for the AI era.

Team Members

The passionate individuals dedicated to building the world's best AI education platform.

Shashini Tennakoon
Shashini Tennakoon

Admin Coordinator

Naveen Atukorala
Naveen Atukorala

Software Engineer

Hasini Liyanage
Hasini Liyanage

Assistant Administrative Coordinator

Veena Madhuri
Veena Madhuri

Senior Operations & Curriculum Manager

Pallavi Bajpai
Pallavi Bajpai

Instructor

Satyam Urkude
Satyam Urkude

AI Operations Engineer

Chathuki Navanjana
Chathuki Navanjana

Software Engineer

Lachin Fernando
Lachin Fernando

Machine Learning Engineer

Chelsea De Lima
Chelsea De Lima

Marketing Specialist

Shilpi Shaw
Shilpi Shaw

AI Operations Engineer

Ravin Francis
Ravin Francis

Marketing Specialist

Thejiya Wegodapola
Thejiya Wegodapola

Digital Marketing Specialist

Shriya Chandel
Shriya Chandel

Digital Marketing Specialist

Mihika Abeysinghe
Mihika Abeysinghe

Digital Marketing Specialist

Irosha Dasanayaka,
Irosha Dasanayaka,

Digital Marketing Specialist

Yasanthi Gunawansha
Yasanthi Gunawansha

Digital Marketing Specialist

Vishwani Herath
Vishwani Herath

Digital Marketing Specialist

Advisory Board

Industry experts and PhD educators providing strategic guidance and academic rigor.

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Advisor 01
Swaminathan Sundararaman

CTO & Co-Founder, Pyxeda.ai

Swaminathan (Swami) Sundararaman is the CTO and co-founder at Pyxeda.ai. Swami is a leader in operational machine learning, edge computing, distributed systems and storage systems. He has 10+ years of expertise in software development and machine learning. Swami holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has 30+ patents in Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Non-Volatile Memory, and storage systems. Swami co-founded the OpML and HotEdge conferences that foster upcoming innovations in operationalizing ML/DL models in production and edge computing, respectively. He serves on the steering committee and program committees of multiple technical conferences.

Operational ML · Edge Computing
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Advisor 02
Venkata Duvvuri

Director of Data Science, Oracle

Venkata Duvvuri is currently a Director of data science at Oracle corporation. He is also an adjunct faculty at Northeastern Univ. teaching data analytics and machine learning. He is results oriented data science, business, web & marketing analytics leader with over 10 years’ experience in Data science, Business Analytics, Digital Media Analytics and Web Marketing optimization with leading internationally recognized corporations, additional 10 years software engineering experience and a top business school MBA. He has experience in management of onshore and offshore teams as well as leadership experience ranging from Director to Manager at Fortune 100 companies including marketing agencies. He is a cross functional leader and subject matter expert in machine learning. He has driven improvements in business & online marketing outcomes to the tunes of several million dollars at Oracle, eBay (Triad Retail Media), Conversant (Alliance Data), AT&T (Cricket Wireless) and crunched several terabytes of data at Apple Corporation. He holds a Masters in Computer science from University of Massachusetts – Amherst and a MBA from University of California- Davis. He is additionally a doctoral candidate at Purdue Univ in Department of Leadership and Innovation.

Data Science Leadership · Analytics
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Advisor 03
Bharath Ramsundar

Founder & CEO, Deep Forest Sciences

Bharath Ramsundar, PhD is the founder and CEO of Deep Forest Sciences, a start-up working to accelerate the use of AI in deep tech. Dr. Ramsundar is also the lead maintainer of the DeepChem project, an open source consortium working to build software for open source medicine discovery. Bharath previously co-founded Computable, a venture-backed start-up building better tools for collaborative dataset management. Dr. Ramsundar has a Computer Science Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research and professional interests include the application of deep learning in drug discovery. Bharath is the lead author of “TensorFlow for Deep Learning :From Linear Regression to Reinforcement Learning”, a developer’s introduction to modern machine learning, with O’Reilly Media, and the lead author of “Deep Learning for the Life Sciences”.

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