The community is run with sincere and ongoing efforts from the following people.
Theme Admins & Moderators
Each sub-group has its own admin or moderator. Nirant is co-admin everywhere.
| Theme | Admin / Moderator(s) |
|---|---|
| The GenerativeAI Group (main hub) | Nirant K |
| Project Demos & Events | Dr. Pratik Desai — KissanAI |
| DeepMedia (diffusion + audio) | Harsha Subramanyam, Manaswi |
| Generative AI x Security | Sandesh Anand |
| Agents and Harnesses | Nirant K |
| India AI Research | Shyamal Anandkat — OpenAI, Mithil Vakde |
| Coffee & Code: Papers Club BLR | Paras Chopra — Lossfunk |
| AI for Healthcare, Biology | Bargava, Ashish Makani |
| AI for Creatives | Computational Mama, Divya Tak |
| Women in AI | Pratiksha Dake, Navita Pareek |
| Agents and Tool Usage | Sachin Dharashivkar, Vignesh Baskaran |
| Voice Agents | Atishay Ganesh — Sarvam, Dr. Pratik Desai — KissanAI |
| Training and Inference | Aashay Sachdeva — Sarvam, Sachin Dharashivkar |
| Search: Embedding, Infra, Text | Nirant K |
| Gen AI Startup Ecosystem | Aditya Agrawal — SuperU, Dr. Pratik Desai — KissanAI |
| Job Posts & Talent | admin not yet identified |
Expertise and Advisory Board
These are the folks who pitch in ideas, help with moderation, lend their expertise and time to the community. This is a voluntary role and I’m deeply grateful for their time and effort:
- Computational Mama, Creative Extraordinaire
- Dr. Pratik Desai — CEO, KissanAI
- Divya Tak — Co-founder @joyus.studio, Product and Game Design
- Shubhi Saxena — Product at Quizizz
- Ravi Theja — Open Source Contributor, Llama Index
- Pratyush Choudhury — AI SaaS & Infrastructure Investor @ Together Fund
- Ojasvi Yadav — AI Lead, WriteSonic
- Dev Aggarwal — Technical Founder at Gooey.AI
- Kaushik Bokka — Stealth Founder, ex-LightningAI, Fynd
- Sudharshan Chandra Babu — Co-founder, FrontierAI
- Sumod Mohan — CEO, AutoInfer
- Rahul Bhatnagar — Founder, Kidovo
- Kumar Shivendu — Systems Engineer, Qdrant
- Aditya Agrawal — Co-founder, SuperU, ex-Tesla
- Abhishek Mishra — Technical Lead, Intel — Resident LLM Finetuning Expert
- Sandesh Anand — Co-founder, Seezo, ex-Razorpay
- Aryaman Behera — Co-founder, Repello AI
- Anshuman Pandey — CEO, NimbleBox.ai
- Pratiksha Dake — Unacademy (formerly Founder, Graphia)
- Navita Pareek — Founder, InstaPhotoAI
- Sachin Dharashivkar — Founder, AthenaAgent
- Vignesh Baskaran — Co-founder, HexoAI
- Dhruv Anand — Search Consultant, VectorDB & LLM
- Soumyadeep Mukherjee — Co-founder and Engineer, Dashtoon
- Aashay Sachdeva — Sarvam
- Atishay Ganesh — Sarvam
- Bargava
- Manaswi — Moderator, DeepMedia
- Harsha Subramanyam — Moderator, DeepMedia
- Mithil Vakde
- Paras Chopra — Founder, Wingify
- Shyamal Anandkat — OpenAI
- Ashish Makani (Twitter: @Acgt01) — ML/AI for cancer & rare disease; bioinformatics, protein design (RFdiffusion). ex-Xebia, Intel
- Ani — Dashverse
Founding Members
These are the co-conspirators which provide the emotional, mental fuel to keep this community going. They are the ones who helped get this off the ground:
- Soumyadeep Mukherjee — Co-founder and Engineer, Dashtoon
- Divya Tak — Co-founder @joyus.studio, Product and Game Design
- Zainab Bawa — COO, Hasgeek
- Pranjal Mehta — Co-founder, Stealth (inactive in community)
On behalf of the community, thank you all for your time and effort.
— Nirant Kasliwal, AI Engineer