Course Director
Based in London, Ajit's work spans research, entrepreneurship and academia relating to artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT).
Ajit is the Course Director and/or tutor for Continuing Education’s portfolio of artificial intelligence courses for professionals:
Ajit is also a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science here at the University of Oxford.
He also works as a Data Scientist through his company Feynlabs - focusing on building innovative early stage AI prototypes for domains such as cybersecurity, robotics and healthcare.
Besides the University of Oxford, Ajit has also conducted AI courses in the London School of Economics (LSE), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and as part of the The Future Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
He is also currently working on a book to teach AI using mathematical foundations at high school level.
Ajit was listed in the top 30 influencers for IoT for 2017 along with Amazon, Bosch, Cisco, Forrester and Gartner by the German insurance company Munich Re.
Ajit publishes extensively on KDnuggets and Data Science Central.
He was recently included in top 16 influencers (Data Science Central), Top 100 blogs (KDnuggets), Top 50 (IoT central), and 19th among the top 50 twitter IoT influencers (IoT Institute).
His PhD research is based on AI and Affective Computing (how AI interprets emotion).
Speaker
Jesus is an accomplished digital industry professional with 25 years of experience, including the last 16 years at Microsoft.
He specialises in digital transformation, innovation, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and user experience, while also maintaining a strong technical background as a software engineer.
He is a leader in emerging forms of interaction such as extended reality, voice, and biometric interfaces.
In 2014, he was the inventor of one of Microsoft's protected patents for a virtual experience applied to public events, long before the term "metaverse" became popular.
Throughout his career, Jesus has been involved in a wide range of industries, including retail (Zara, IKEA), banking (Santander), insurance (Reale), media (Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox), and telecommunications (Ooredoo).
He has also led the Sports and Entertainment Innovation team, managing 180 sports organisations in 35 countries and 23 sports (Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Laliga, FIFA, FIVB, IAAF, Toyota WRC, WWE, Russia World Cup 2018, Qatar World Cup 2022 etc.).
He has led the development of several successful consumer apps for iOS, Android, Windows and HoloLens, which have received millions of downloads.
He is a top Microsoft speaker, having delivered over 100 sessions and keynotes at global events, achieving the Microsoft Speaker Grand Slam (speaking at the five largest Microsoft global events). He is also an Associate Professor in various Master's programmes and a frequent collaborator with business schools, universities and bootcamps.
Jesus' favourite quote is "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Course Director
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
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.
Speaker
Enterprise Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Tingyi Li works as an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) based in Stockholm, Sweden, and is the founder and leader of the AWS Nordics Generative AI community.
She enjoys helping customers with the architecture, design, and development of cloud-optimized infrastructure solutions. Currently, she is focusing on demystifying Generative AI and working with companies across industries to unlock business values leveraging AI/ML and Generative AI technologies.
Tingyi has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China and finished her master's degree in Machine Learning from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Prior to AWS, she has worked as a Data and AI Engineer, as well as Software developer roles at Intel, Foxconn and Huawei etc., building large-scale intelligent industrial data systems and driving innovations using AI/ML.
In her spare time, she also works as a part-time illustrator/prompt engineer who writes novels and plays the piano.
Guest Speaker
Aishwarya works as a tech lead at the AWS-Generative AI Innovation Center in California, where she leads projects aimed at building production-ready generative AI applications for medium to large-sized businesses. With over 8 years of experience in machine learning, Aishwarya has published 30+ research papers in top AI conferences and mentored numerous graduate students. She actively collaborates with research labs and professors from institutions like Stanford University, University of Michigan, and University of South Carolina on projects related to LLMs, graph models and generative AI.
Outside her professional and academic pursuits, Aishwarya actively contributes to education through various channels. She offers free courses online, with over 3000 individuals having taken them already, and serves as a visiting lecturer at esteemed institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, she co-founded The LevelUp Org in 2022, a tech mentoring community dedicated to assisting newcomers in the field through mentorship programs and career-oriented events. A recognised industry expert and thought leader, Aishwarya frequently speaks at various industry conferences like ODSC, WomenTech Network, ReWork and AI4, and has presented research at top-tier AI research conferences including EMNLP, AAAI and CVPR.
Tutor
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.
