Dr. Ankur Narang
DeepTech Founder · Technology Executive · AI Researcher
Building and scaling technology ventures across Agentic AI, Physical AI, Quantum Computing and enterprise transformation.
Founder & CEO of DeepCoreX Labs — a DeepTech venture studio building and commercializing ventures across Agentic AI, Physical AI and Quantum technologies. 30+ years across research labs, AI products used by millions, enterprise AI transformation, technology leadership and advanced AI education.
Research → Build → Transform → Lead & Teach
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Positioning
Research → Build → Transform → Lead & Teach
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Research
Frontier AI, physical AI, reinforcement learning, multimodal systems and high performance computing.
02
Build
Production systems and platforms operating at consumer and enterprise scale.
03
Transform
Enterprise AI programmes with measurable commercial outcomes.
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Lead & Teach
Organisations, executives, researchers, students and AI practitioners.
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Every capability resolves to real evidence — papers, systems, programmes and outcomes.
Agentic AI
Experience
- Founder & CEODeepCoreX Labs · 2026–Present
- Associate Vice President — AI, Innovation & TransformationApparel Group · 2023–2026
- AI Fellow / ConsultantMeta Reality Labs / Unify Tech · 2024–2025
- Vice President & Head of AI and Data TechnologyHike · 2019–2023
- Senior Researcher & ManagerIBM Research · 2007–2014
- Member Technical Staff / Software & Research LeadSun Microsystems / Sun Research Labs · 1997–2003
Impact
Publication
Teaching
Course
Membership
Outcomes first
Selected impact
Impact
Enterprise AI transformation across retail
AI, automation and digital transformation across business functions
Apparel Group · 2023–2026
- $200M+ validated topline impact
- 30–40% latency/cost reduction
Impact
Multilingual messaging and sticker recommendation
8-language real-time recommendation system
Hike · 2019–2023
- ~10M MAU
- AAAI/IAAI Deployment Award
Impact
Production Deep RL for Google Ads bidding
Fully automated learned bidding policy
Yatra · 2017–2019
- +35% impressions/clicks
- +10% conversions
Impact
Voice/text conversational AI and call-center automation
Flights/hotels bots and AR discovery
Yatra · 2017–2019
- 60% call-volume automation
- 35% cost reduction
Current research
Before the Needle
Semantic Action Contracts for Risk-Aware Robot Intervention
- Perception uncertainty
- Semantic risk
- Active sensing
- Sense / Act / Defer
- Safe action authorization
Lead & Teach
Current teaching & capability building
Enterprise Agentic AI Capability Program
Building capability from executive AI prioritisation through production implementation and enterprise pilot squads.
Production AI Agents
Building reliable production agents with tools, RAG, memory, evaluations, observability, security and deployment.
Arc
Career evolution
- Sun Microsystems
- IBM Research
- Mobileum / Yatra
- Hike
- ByteLearn / Apparel
- DeepCoreX
Systems → research → applied AI → consumer-scale AI → enterprise transformation → frontier AI and DeepTech.
Speaking
Featured talks
Talk
AI in Retail: Insights
2025
Talk
AI & Generative AI Applications in Retail
2024
Talk
AI Augmented Creativity
2024
Talk
Generative AI for Gaming
2024
Talk
AI and Computer Vision for Metaverse
2022
Talk
Sticker Recommendation and AI-Driven Innovations on the Hike Messaging Platform
2019
Papers
Research highlights
- Before the Needle: Semantic Action Contracts for Risk-Aware Robot InterventionSemRob @ RSS2026
- Performance Evaluation of Opponent Modeling with Meta-Learning for Competitive EnvironmentsICML Workshop2019
- Understanding Chat Messages for Sticker Recommendation in Messaging AppsAAAI / IAAI2020
- Large Scale Multilingual Sticker Recommendation in Messaging AppsAI Magazine 42(4)2022
- High Performance Offline and Online Distributed Collaborative FilteringIEEE ICDM2012
- Predictive Caching Framework for Mobile Wireless NetworksIEEE MDM2015
Evidence, not adjectives
Leadership
Technical strategy and direction
Sets path forward, develops strategy, gives concrete direction and support
Communication and stakeholder alignment
Listening, clear communication, rational alignment to objectives
Conflict resolution and creative problem solving
Transparent/objective stakeholder handling and team synergy
Cross-functional innovation at Hike
AI, Engineering, Product, Design, Art and Marketing coordination
Selected
Recognition
Global Artificial Intelligence Award & UAE Innovation Award
Dubai Quality Group · 2025
Leadership Excellence Award for Innovation
Apparel Group · 2024
Early Technology Adopter Award
SRF Conference, Riyadh · 2024
Outstanding Leadership Award
Internet 2.0, Dubai · 2024
Exceptional Rising & Power Leaders
White Page Leadership Conclave · 2023
Insights CXO Award — AI/ML
2022
Start anywhere in the graph
A technology, a company, a research topic, a leadership capability, a talk or a course — each leads to the connected evidence.