Nikhil Malhotra

Chief Innovation Officer | Global head of AI and emerging technologies | creator and principal researcher of project INDUS (India’s LLM) | WEF fellow for AI

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

About

Global innovation leader with deep expertise in AI, quantum computing, neuroscience-inspired architecture, and responsible AI. Responsible for the first ever Indic LLM , Project Indus launched in India.I am a founder of Makers Lab and architect of large-scale enterprise AI systems including TechM Orion. Specializes in building future-focused innovation ecosystems, deep tech IP, and enterprise AI transformation. • Founded and scaled Makers Lab, the global deep tech research & innovation powerhouse. • Delivered the therapeutic molecule for cure against covid – 19 in 2022 • Creator of India’s first ever LLM grounds up by an IT services company, Project Indus • Architected TechM Orion, the enterprise agentic AI platform enabling autonomous enterprise workflows. • Led multimodal AI diagnostic development for cancer and neurological disease detection. • Directed quantum security, optimization, and readiness programs for global enterprises. • Introduced Dream.AI to explore synthetic imagination and creativity at human–machine boundaries. • Advised Fortune 100 leadership on AI strategy, transformation, and governance. • Led partnerships with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, BASF, and top universities worldwide.

Experience

  • Tech Mahindra (12 yrs)
    • Chief Innovation Officer
      Apr 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

    • Global head of innovation
      Apr 2019 - Apr 2019 · 1 mo

    • Heading customer centric innovation
      Aug 2014 - Apr 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Skills include a) Python NLP using NLTK module. Combining ANN with NLP B Jquery b) Jquery mobile c) Phone gap d) Python, Qt, PyCharm e) Objective C development f) Windows Phone development g) Bootstrap twitter h) Angular JS i) R

  • Senior Technical Architect - Microsoft Practice at Tech Mahindra
    Feb 2007 - May 2013 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    As a Technical architect my primary function is to support delivery by designing and maintaining the architecture of a new product or services that Tech Mahindra provides. I also work as a member of Tech Mahindra Microsoft practice writng proposals and supporting pre-sales along with carrying out innovation on upcoming Microsoft technologies like Cloud computing / Biztalk etc.

  • Senior Architect at AT&T
    2010 - 2012 · 2 yrs

  • Project Manager at Batelco
    2007 - May 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Technical architect

  • Technical Lead at IBM
    2006 - 2007 · 1 yr

    Managed Airtel account by getting in-house applications develoepd for Airtel, applications like radar (project management system) , inventory management etc