About
Dr. Ankur Narang
Research → Build → Transform → Lead & Teach. A 30+ year arc from frontier research to production AI, enterprise transformation and venture building.
I work at the intersection of frontier AI research and production systems — physical AI, agentic systems, multimodal AI and high performance computing — and translate that work into enterprise outcomes, ventures and teaching.
Research foundations
IIT Delhi → Sun Microsystems Research → IBM Research
Doctoral and industrial research in compilers, parallel algorithms, distributed systems and high performance computing — the systems grounding that later made large-scale AI practical.
AI products & platforms
Mobileum → Yatra → Hike → ByteLearn
Built and led AI teams shipping fraud detection, deep reinforcement learning for bidding and revenue optimisation, multilingual recommendation serving millions of monthly users, avatar and multimodal systems, and AI tutoring.
Enterprise transformation
Apparel Group
Led enterprise AI, innovation and transformation across retail functions — strategy, governance, generative and agentic workflows, computer vision and measurable commercial outcomes.
Frontier AI & venture building
DeepCoreX Labs
A DeepTech venture studio and advisory practice working on physical AI, agentic systems, multimodal AI and quantum technologies, alongside current research on risk-aware robot intervention.
Education & thought leadership
IIT Delhi → enterprise capability programs → Production AI Agents
Teaching across academia, executive education and advanced practitioner training, with research mentorship and conference speaking.
Professional
Memberships
- IEEE Senior MemberSenior-grade professional membership with experience/performance requirements
- AIM Leaders CouncilInvitation-only analytics leadership council membership
- TiE Charter MemberCharter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a global network for entrepreneurs and venture builders