AJAY WANEKAR

AJAY WANEKAR is currently the Chief Executive Officer at LightspeakAI and serves as an AI Business Fellow at Perplexity. They are pursuing a Master of Technology in Energy Science and Technology at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, set to graduate in 2027. Previously, AJAY held positions as a Programmer Analyst Trainee at Cognizant and as a Machine Learning Intern at Bharat Intern, where they developed models for wine quality and house price predictions. AJAY also worked as a Junior Research Assistant at TiHAN-IIT Hyderabad, focusing on artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles, and as a Project Associate Fellow at IIT Hyderabad, specializing in the implementation of AI in robots and vision-language models.