​​​​Shikhar  Kwatra​

Data & AI Architect and Master Inventor, IBM

​Apr 2020 - Present

• Led multiple engagements with team members including leads, consultants, across multiple global locations effectively and improved multiple project delivery efficiency. This led to referencing clients with premium customer satisfaction rating.

• Creator of End-to-end Data & AI product delivery (low code platform with hybrid Interface) from conceptualization to production for large enterprises incorporating active feedback from clients, which led to 200+ deployments in 2 years with clients spanning across financial, retail and healthcare sector.

• Creator of End-to-End ML-Ops Starter Kit as ML-Operationalization Core Lead to operationalize AI models inclusive of detection of bias, fairness, and model drift for enterprises in a hybrid cloud environment (Azure, AWS, GCP).

• Conduct Discovery workshops with clients to understand the data sets and explore data science use cases.

• Architect and configure hybrid cloud solutions for enterprises based on their requirements and workloads.

• Co-Inventor of 350+ patents (Youngest Indian M.I.) filed in USPTO pertaining to the field of Mobile, Hardware software interface, AI, Blockchain etc. Received numerous invention achievement awards for patent and technical publications.

• Led Academy of Technology (AoT) initiative on “Machine Learning Explainability”. Actively contributed to developing multiple whitepapers including best practices as part of Global AoT Initiative: “Reproducibility of ML models”.

• Leading Women in Technology (WII) Initiative to create an all-inclusive mindset and encourage female inventors to move forward and innovate on groundbreaking technologies.

• Active Speaker at various conferences showcasing Watson AI services and use-cases utilizing Watson ML APIs.

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AI-IoT IP Engineer and Master Inventor, IBM

​May 2016 - Mar 2020

 

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Youngest Master Inventor

Honored to be one of the youngest Master Inventor in IBM and youngest Indian to achieve this title! Proven track record in IBM's patent process, invention, and innovation activities including creation, teaming, and evaluation. Active inventor in a broad spectrum of technology areas resulting in 300+ USPTO patent applications, multiple patents in geographies such as the US, CN, KE, IN and JP, and patents owned by top companies.
- 2019: Appointed Master Inventor via Corporate Group.

The title of IBM Master Inventor is an appointed honor awarded to inventors who:
- Demonstrate sustained innovation leadership
- Mentor broad community of inventors
- Provide service to IP Law and invention development teams (IDTs)

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Intellectual Property Engineer

​Collaborating in matrix organization of IP engineers, attorneys, and business teams to monetize and license IBM's patent portfolio.

Technical proficiency includes computer hardware, system on chip, IoT, Cognitive, enterprise systems, storage, and consumer technologies. Responsibilities include providing timely, high-quality patent and technical information research, analysis, and proficiency, specifically:

• Leading technical discussions on US and International client engagements

• Partnering with Business Development Executive and Attorneys to structure IP assets and deals

• Analyzing products, technologies, and landscape for data-driven insights

• Applying competitive market and technical intelligence to meet business and revenue targets

• Researching technology areas to identify critical areas that will be important in the near future

• Dissecting potentially infringing products and developed evidence of use against industry offerings

• Classifying patents in IBM’s portfolio that may be relevant to widely deployed technologies

 

• Worked on creating the dataset and training model for feature extraction and dynamic keyword mapping as part of the Cognitive project.

• This will enable classification of patents under certain domains of technology areas and simplify the operation of extensively researching over the IP portfolio.

• It will also create an automated system to assist patent engineers in determining evidence of use.

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Invention Development Teams

Serving on multiple invention development teams (IDT) for several business units including Corporate Headquarters (CHQ), Software Group (SWG), Pervasive Wireless IDT board, Commerce IDT, Global Mobile board IDT (GBS) and IBM Blockchain Group to review potential ideas and identify strong candidates for filing.

Subject-matter expert in the evaluation of the following technologies: CPUs, multi-processors, mobile devices, cognitive/AI tech, pervasive/wireless technologies, user interface, and immersive virtual environments.

Responsibilities include:
- Interfacing with inventors in the review process to facilitate the discussion of their invention disclosures
- Mentoring inventors on how to apply technical proficiency and creative problem solving skills to ideas
- Reviewing inventions to derive the core novelty and broadest impact to the business
- Perform patentability searches to locate prior art that apply to the field of an invention
- Advising on value, patentability, and technical feasibility of invention disclosures under consideration
- Advocating for strong, solid technical disclosures and applications toward high quality patent issuance

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Project Engineer, Wipro Technologies

​July 2014 - June 2015

 

​My job in Wipro Technologies as Product Engineering services as an Embedded C developer led to work on Bluetooth module and application layer for developing an automotive Infotainment system.

• Collaborated in the optimization of Bluetooth module and application layer with IPC communication as an embedded C developer for the development of an automotive Infotainment system. Also gained expertise in working on Canoe module.

• Spearheaded the Radio design module team and debugging state machine  employing HSM architecture.

• Testing, development and deployment of new features alongside weekly customer and onsite interaction.

 

Lead Research Engineer, mLabs

​Sep-2012 To Dec-2013

               

      Memristor Kit

• Designed and programmed a low-cost DIY Memristor kit using arduino and RaspberryPi and validated various analog circuits using the same.

• Work led to gained visibility among scientific community and created awareness about memristor among students.

• Presented the idea of Memristors and future of emerging technologies in workshop at IIT-Delhi   

• Proved the existence of canonical implementation of Memristive devices via Characterization techniques.

     

      Low Cost Data Acquisition system - Bit by Bit(B3)

• Developed a fully automated data acquisition and analysis system along with an arbitrary waveform generator using RaspberryPi based Board. Currently known by the name Bit by Bit (B3) and supported by microsoft ventures. 

• Work led to development of Home Automation System module using an extra zigbee.

• Debugged various analog circuit designs using the designed kit.

• A modified version of the same was used to design a Wireless Remote control Robotic car.

• Developed Zigbee based digital clock with an on-screen wireless data capturing module for live data display.

 

INTERN, CEDT(NSIT)

June2011-Aug 2012

• Heart Rate Monitor – Developed a non-invasive heart rate monitor using IR sensor, displayed ECG graph using Processing.     

    

      Arduino Based Display Projects 

• Pac-man On Digital Storage Oscilloscope – Using Arduino proto-shield, 2 8 bit DAC’s were built using R-2R ladder network connected to the Digital Storage Oscilloscope via the probe. Link - http://bit.ly/Nl4cHk 

• Snake Game On 8X8 Led matrix - Using Arduino Uno Microcontroller Board interfaced with a controller for controlling the movement of snake on 8X8 Led matrix. Link - http://goo.gl/BK8HIg

• 5V Power Supply with Fold-back Limiting Current of 600mA (Jan 2012) – Designing hardware on a PCB.

 

Intern, Robosapiens

June 2010-Aug 2010

• Training on Advanced Robotics and Embedded Systems: Learnt about microcontrollers and worked on AVR ATmega8/16/32 and successfully accomplished projects like building line follower, obstacle-avoider, wireless communication with robots.

•  Secured 2nd grade in course on Embedded systems and AVR from Robosapiens.

 

Google Online Marketing Challenge

• Worked in a team of 6 members with Singodia Electronics Private Ltd (singodia.com) and Contributed in suggesting online marketing strategies and worked on Google Ad-words campaigns.

• Analysed and optimized the campaigns to bring down the CPC (Cost per Click) and increase the CTR.

• Submitted detailed progress reports regarding the same to Google. Achieved AIR 17 and Asia Rank-43 in GOMC.

 

Content Development Work, Collegespace

Oct 2011-March 2013

• Coordinated with the Team in order to contact all the members to facilitate timely content of the required study material.

• Wrote Articles and updated contents on the site related to relevant Topics and events occurring at NSIT.