Course Director and Tutor
Ajit is a dedicated leader and teacher in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with a strong background in AI for Cyber-Physical Systems, research, entrepreneurship, and academia.
Currently, he serves as the Course Director for several AI programs at the University of Oxford and is a Visiting Fellow in Engineering Sciences at the University of Oxford. His work is rooted in the interdisciplinary aspects of AI, such as AI integration with Digital Twins and Cybersecurity.
His courses have also been delivered at prestigious institutions, including the London School of Economics (LSE), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), and as part of The Future Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
As an Advisory AI Engineer, Ajit specialises in developing innovative, early-stage AI prototypes for complex applications. His work focuses on leveraging interdisciplinary approaches to solve real-world challenges using AI technologies.
Ajit has shared his expertise on technology and AI with several high-profile platforms, including the World Economic Forum, Capitol Hill/White House, and the European Parliament.
Ajit is currently writing a book aimed at teaching AI through mathematical foundations at the high school level.
Ajit resides in London, UK, and holds British citizenship. He is actively engaged in advancing AI education and innovation both locally and globally. He is neurodiverse - being on the high functioning autism spectrum.
Ajit's work in teaching, consulting, and entrepreneurship is grounded in methodologies and frameworks he developed through his AI teaching experience. These methodologies help to rapidly develop complex, interdisciplinary AI solutions in a relatively short time. These include:
1. The Jigsaw Methodology for low-code data science to non-developers.
2. The AI Product Manager framework and AI product market fit framework
3. Software engineering with the LLM stack
4. Agentic RAG for cyber-physical systems.
5. AI for Engineering sciences:
6. The ability of AI to reason using large language models
He also consults at senior advisory levels to companies.
His newsletter on AI in Linkedin has a wide following
Senior Course Tutor
Associate Professor, Department of Electronics, SRCASW, University of Delhi
Amita Kapoor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electronics, SRCASW, University of Delhi, and has been actively teaching neural networks and artificial intelligence for over twenty years, and she is an active member of ACM, AAAI, IEEE, and INNS.
Amita completed her masters in Electronics in 1996 and her Ph.D. in 2011.
During her Ph.D she was awarded a prestigious DAAD fellowship to pursue a part of her research work in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. Amita was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the Photonics 2008 international conference.
Amita has more than 50 research publications in international journals and conferences, and has co-authored four books, including the best-selling “Deep learning with TensorFlow2 and Keras” with Packt Publications.
Passionate about using her skills for the betterment of society and humankind, Amita spends her spare time in various AI-related IoT and healthcare open source projects. She was recently awarded the Intel AI Spotlight Award 2019 for her work on the early detection of Acute Myeloid Leukemia using AI.
Amita’s present research areas include Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Robotics.
Senior Course Tutor
Data Scientist
Ayşe Mutlu is a data scientist working on Azure AI and devops technologies. Based in London, Ayşe’s work involves building and deploying Machine Learning and Deep Learning models using the Microsoft Azure framework (Azure DevOps and Azure Pipelines).
She enjoys coding in Python and contributing to Open Source Initiatives in Python.
Course Tutor
Head of Robotics, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Mustafa Aldemir is an experienced technology leader in the field of AI and IoT. He holds a BSc in Electronics Engineering, a MSc in Mechatronics, and he is pursuing PhD studies in Computer Science.
Mustafa previously worked as a software engineer at Siemens and ING. He delivered numerous AI & IoT workshops at universities around Europe while working as a tech lead at Intel.
He is currently working as a senior prototyping architect at AWS to develop innovative cloud solutions for leading companies around EMEA and leading the Robotics domain at AWS.
Course Tutor
LLM Strategy Consultant and AI Developer
John Alexander is a highly experienced and accomplished professional with a diverse background in technology, strategy consulting, and education. He has a passion for designing and building accessible experiences using machine learning coupled with vision, voice, touch, and virtual/mixed reality. Currently, he serves as an LLM Strategy Consultant and AI Developer, where he focuses on implementing LLM strategies and experimenting with cutting-edge tools like LangChain and Pinecone. Additionally, John is a Tutor at the University of Oxford, where he lectures on Artificial Intelligence applications and Cloud and Edge Implementations.
Prior to his current roles, John spent several years at Microsoft, where he held various positions including Lead Developer and Engineer Relations, Autonomous Systems, and Lead Content Developer on ML.Net. John participated in the Xbox Accessible Controller beta and the launch video. He was on the award-winning Hackathon 2020 Elev8: Accessible Guitar Team. These are two of his proudest accomplishments. His expertise also extends to content development and instruction, as he has developed Coursera courses and Learn modules on Autonomous Systems in collaboration with prestigious institutions like the University of Washington and the University of Oxford.
Before joining Microsoft, John was the co-founder of a digital agency and consultancy and had the honor of being a Microsoft Regional Director for 19 years, where he participated in scheduled strategic feedback sessions with Microsoft senior leadership teams. John co-founded the largest technical blogging community in the world, Geekswithblogs.Net, before selling it several years ago. He’s co-authored three best-selling technical books and Microsoft Official Curriculum. John has a proven track record in high-profile international public speaking and presentations in front of some of the most demanding audiences, both executive and technical.
He’s coached several teams of developers, leading one directly responsible for earning their organization a place on CIO Magazine’s “Agile 100” list. John also built music chart applications for Billboard Magazine used by "American Top 40” and architected a highly scalable Mutual Funds Trading SOA-based platform used non-stop the last 21 years to process billions of dollars in transactions. In his spare time, he's sat in Kirk's Chair on the bridge, recorded cartoon pilots as part of a voice ensemble cast, is the co-creator of the "Geek" t-shirt (found at most Microsoft conferences), and was Facebook friends with Patrick Swayze.
Mentor
Digital Hive and Innovation consultant, Anglo American Plc
Marina is an Analyst Developer and Software consultant at Anglo American plc working at the Digital Hive on innovative trading analytics and optimisation projects. She has over 18 years’ experience in Software Engineering, Business Analysis, Data Science and full software development life cycle in a variety of business domains including Commodity trading and optimisation, Finance, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, e-commerce, e-learning, and web-development.
Marina holds an MSc, with distinction, in Software Engineering from the University of Oxford and a degree in Applied Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. In February 2020, Marina completed the course "Data science for internet of things" from the University of Oxford.
Mentor
Digital Solutions Architect, Metrobank
Anjali is a Digital Solutions Architect at Metrobank, where she helps to deliver advanced technology driven business solutions around diverse themes of Internet Banking, Mobile App, Business banking, and Open banking/PSD2, using agile methodology.
She has over 16 years of IT experience and worked across Banking, Telecom and logistics domains, from inception to the delivery of complex projects.
Anjali is passionate about AI and Machine learning and completed the course "Data science for internet of things" in February 2019 from the University of Oxford.
Course Tutor
Head of Innovation and Data Science Team, PwC Luxembourg
Hazal is an experienced data science professional with over 9 years of experience in the field. As the Head of Innovation and Data Science team at PwC, she is responsible for leading the development of new tools and products to automate the daily tasks of auditors and improve their efficiency using Data Science and Machine Learning.
Before joining PwC, Hazal worked as a data scientist and business analyst for banks, where she focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Maths and Computer Science, and a Master's degree in Big Data Analytics.
Course Tutor
Norah Klintberg Sakal is an AI enthusiast and entrepreneur passionate about applying technology to solve real-world problems. As the founder of Braine, Norah assists companies in enhancing productivity using AI tools like GPT-3/4. Before Braine, Norah founded NuclAI, focusing on AI algorithms for cancer research and microbiology.
During her time at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, Norah worked on artificial intelligence for segmentation of nuclei from transmitted images, further developing her expertise in the field. She has shared her knowledge and insights at international conferences, engaging audiences on AI, entrepreneurship, and innovation. As an AI tutor at Oxford, Norah aims to inspire students to explore the potential of AI and create innovative solutions across industries.
Senior Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Chris is Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with more than 15 years's experience in the IT industry. He's a published author on several books about web development as well as the Go language. He's also a recognized speaker as well as keynote speaker and holds a Google developer expert title.
Course Tutor
Senior Data Scientist
Kajal is a Senior Data Scientist/Engineer working with Data ETL pipelines and AI projects for a large Sports-tech company.
She is a co-author of the book Applying Reinforcement Learning on Real-World Data with Practical Examples in Python.
In her professional journey, she has worked on use cases like anomaly detection, sentiment analysis, classification, transactional AI assistants, complex big data processing, data analytics, document digitisation, ETL pipelining etc.
Kajal also has been a part of multiple hackathons conducted within and across IT industries.
She is also awarded with Amazon Pride Card for her research contribution to “Women In AI” project of IIIT, Bangalore.
Kajal has won special recognition for her project 'Transactional AI assistant', and has also been honoured as 'Master Hacker' in Makeathon at a regional level in India.
Kajal has also led a non-commercial research project with a German company on pricing optimization using Reinforcement Learning (RL).
Led by Ajit Jaokar and supported by a number of other AI and coding specialists, the course is based on the book Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Keras: Build and deploy supervised, unsupervised, deep, and reinforcement learning models, 3rd Edition (Packt Publishing, 2022).