Ram has been a technology entrepreneur for 17 years. For more than a decade now, his primary area of research has been machine learning and AI. He created Quillpad, a first of its kind machine learning based transliteration tool for Indian languages, for which he was honoured with the MIT TR35 Young innovator, India in 2010. He founded Cognirel Technologies, which is developing AI solutions for teaching. I love art, design, running, playing and of course teaching. Ram is an IIT-Madras alumnus.