Strategic research and industry programs

Flagship Projects

Large-scale collaborations translating research in optimization, reasoning, and domain AI into deployed platforms and industry programs.

PI Approx. USD 2M

EnergyAI

Causal and Multi-Modal AI Platform for Energy

PI for the MBZUAI--Inception initiative developing energy-domain LLMs and VLMs for causal, mathematical, and physics-grounded reasoning across exploration, production, and subsurface workflows.

Co-PI Approx. USD 1M

Etihad Airways Conversational AI Booking Agent

Text and voice AI for airline booking

Co-PI for a collaboration developing conversational AI for flight booking, customer interaction, personalization, and revenue-aware recommendation.

Co-founder

Syllogia

AI-driven quantitative research infrastructure

Co-founder of an AI-driven systematic trading and reasoning-model venture with two hedge-fund partners that manage trillions of U.S. dollars in aggregate.

Co-founder

Adherence

Agent-first conversational AI platforms

Co-founder of an AI company developing platforms for building, testing, and deploying specialized conversational AI in healthcare, aviation, and enterprise settings.

Program Focus

These programs connect frontier AI research with real operational settings: domain reasoning, robust decision support, human-facing conversational systems, and infrastructure for high-stakes AI workflows.

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