Inspiration and Recognition

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   Program completion certificate

   AI/ML foundation

   McCombs School of Business, UT Austin · 2025

   Post Graduate Program in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Business Applications, delivered with Great Learning. Completed 2025.

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   International speaking at ICIEEE-2026

   MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur · 11–12 Sept 2026

   Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Innovations in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, organised by World Research Union with proceedings in IEEE Xplore. The talk showed how everyday AI-driven banking and retail experiences depend on real-time data infrastructure, for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

   Certificate (PDF)

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   Fellow panelist's LinkedIn post

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   On stage, COLLIDE 2026

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   Industry panel: Agents in the Enterprise

   COLLIDE Data & AI Conference (Data Science Connect), Atlanta · 1 Oct 2026 · Panelist

   Panelist alongside senior data and AI leaders from Honeywell, Capital One, EXP and TelevisaUnivision, sharing what it takes to move agentic AI from prototype to production-grade enterprise systems. Afterwards, fellow panelist Keyur Vyas (Senior Director, Capital One) publicly credited the panel in a LinkedIn post, naming me among the panelists he learned from.

   COLLIDE event pageKeyur Vyas’s LinkedIn post

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   Recognition received 12 October 2026 for first-round judging

   Hackathon: participant to leader

   Synchrony internal Agentic AI and MCP hackathons

   Finalist in 2025, then organizer and judge in 2026. Each event drew 600+ participants. For the Fall 2026 MCP hackathon I also served on the first-round judging panel, reviewing team pitches in breakout rooms across hubs and time zones; the organizers recognized the judges for giving every team a fair and careful review (internal recognition, 12 October 2026).

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   Certificate of appreciation, featured speaker and judge

   Featured speaker and judge for university students

   Kennesaw State University, College of Computing and Software Engineering · Career Compass Series · 30 Sept 2026

   Featured speaker and judge for the workshop “Career Research in the AI Era: Tools, Insights, and Opportunities.” I spoke on what employers actually need in the AI era: beyond familiarity with AI tools, the problem-solving, systems thinking, domain knowledge, communication and judgment needed to apply technology responsibly to real business problems. The College recognized the session with a certificate of appreciation.

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   Illustration — articles feeding the team's reference practice

   Writing used as mentoring material

   DZone · Dev.to — two of an ongoing, multi-platform practice

   The two pieces colleagues, consultants and interns turn to most when connecting their own AI idea to the underlying data layer: an industry-facing DZone piece on the gap between AI assistance and AI completion, and the completed 15-part Dev.to series on caching architecture, from an ongoing practice that also spans Finextra and other platforms (see Public Influencer for the fuller record).

   DZone articleDev.to series indexFull writing portfolio →

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   Certificate of IEEE Membership

   IEEE Senior Member

   IEEE · Senior Member in good standing through December 2026

   Certificate of IEEE Membership, recognizing sustained professional contribution and a personal commitment to the advancement of technology.

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   Certificate of Membership

   SAS Eminent Fellow Membership (SEFM)

   Scholars Academic and Scientific Society · Membership ID SAS/SEFM/775/2026 · effective 12 August 2026

   Bestowed by the Society's executive committee in recognition of outstanding contribution in education and research.

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   Certificate of election as Fellow

   IETE Fellowship (FIETE)

   Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers · Membership No. F-507899 · elected 14 September 2026

   Certificate of election as Fellow of the Institution, granted at New Delhi on 14 September 2026. Fellow is the Institution's senior grade of membership.

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   Certificate of appreciation, volunteer judge

   Judge, 2026 Globee® Awards for Innovation

   Globee Awards · Certificate of appreciation, volunteer judge · 2026

   Volunteer judge for the 2026 Globee® Awards for Innovation, recognized by Globee Awards for valuable contribution and dedication as a judge.

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   2025 Synchrony CEO Award

   Synchrony's highest recognition, awarded to a select group of employees each year

   Synchrony's highest recognition, awarded for exceptional outcomes delivered ahead of expected 2025 goals while embodying the company's values.

Technical Program Committee

• IEEE IEMCON
• BDAA 2026^[1]
• RIVF 2026^[2]

Peer review

Approximately 120 research-paper and conference-proposal reviews across 29 venues. Certificates for 24 of them, across 23 conferences, are shown below; the remaining 5 are noted as pending and will be added once received.

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AMLDS 2026 · Osaka, Japan · 21–23 Jul 2026 — Reviewer

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ARIIA 2026 · Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru · 18–19 Dec 2026 — Reviewer — "Effective Depression Detection on Social Media Using Machine Learning"

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ARIIA 2026 · Dayananda Sagar University, Bengaluru · 18–19 Dec 2026 — Reviewer — "Layout Verification and Resistive Parasitic Extraction Analysis of a 1-Bit CMOS Magnitude Comparator"

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CCNCPS 2026 · Dubai, UAE · 14–17 Sept 2026 — TPC and Technical Papers Reviewer

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ICSL-DSGA 2026 · Sunway University, Malaysia / IIT Madras — Reviewer

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ICNCCom 2026 · IEEE Madras Section · 30 Jul–1 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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ICEECE 2026 · Penang, Malaysia · 19–20 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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InC4 2026 · IEEE CS Bangalore / CHRIST University · 7–8 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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IISCC 2026 · Dubai, UAE · 14–17 Sept 2026 — TPC and Technical Papers Reviewer

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ICSCC 2026 · Bali, Indonesia · 23–25 Jul 2026 — Reviewer

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INCOSST 2026 · Cirebon, Indonesia · 8 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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ICACSDF 2026 · UPES, Dehradun · 11–12 Sept 2026 — Reviewer

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BDAI 2026 (IEEE 9th Int'l Conf. Big Data & AI) · Chongqing, China · 3–5 Jul 2026 — Technical Committee Member

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IEEE R10 HTC 2026 · Bangkok, Thailand · 26–28 Oct 2026 — Reviewer

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IEEE SIME 2026 · Sousse, Tunisia · 2–4 Nov 2026 — Technical Reviewer

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ICST 2026 · IIT Patna, India · 1–2 Aug 2026 — Program Committee Member and Reviewer

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ICDSCNC 2026 · Sri Krishna Institute of Technology, Bengaluru · 28–29 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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SASIGD 2026 · CBIT, Hyderabad · 13–14 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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AIKIIE-2026 · RYMEC, Ballari · 7–8 Aug 2026 — Reviewer

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IEEE IEMCON 2026 · UC Berkeley, USA · 30 Sept–2 Oct 2026 — TPC Member and Reviewer

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ICSIT 2026 · Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Nagpur · 26–27 Sept 2026 — Reviewer

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IEC2T-26 · AKGEC Ghaziabad, IEEE U.P. Section · 9–10 Sept 2026 — Reviewer

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iSemantic 2026 · Semarang, Indonesia · 18–20 Sept 2026 — Reviewer

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IEEE TEMSMET-2026 · Symbiosis International, Hyderabad · 29–31 Oct 2026 — Reviewer

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IEEE ICAII · Beijing, China — Reviewer — certificate pending

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ICEdge · Bengaluru, India — Reviewer — certificate pending

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AUTOCOM · Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, India — Reviewer — certificate pending

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JCSER (Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research) · Academic Edge Press, Manchester, UK — Peer Reviewer — certificate pending

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NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy LLM Evaluation (JUDGe) · Atlanta, USA — Reviewer — certificate pending

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   Presentation certificate

   A Self-Optimizing Multi-Agent AI Caching Architecture for High-Throughput Financial Systems

   ECPDC 2026 · Certificate of participation, oral presentation · 8 August 2026

   Certificate confirming the oral presentation at ECPDC 2026, Singapore; paper published in ACM ICPS proceedings.

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   Certificate of appreciation, oral presentation

   Multi-Agent Orchestration for Agentic Commerce: Coordinating Shopping, Payment, Rewards, and Fraud Agents in Real-Time Financial Transactions

   CAIS 2026 · Certificate of appreciation, oral presentation · 29 September 2026

   Certificate confirming the oral presentation at the 2026 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation (CAIS 2026), Kuala Lumpur, 28–30 September 2026.

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   Certificate of Appreciation

   From Cloud-Native to AI-Native: Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise

   ICIEEE-2026 · Certificate of Appreciation, Keynote Speaker · 11–12 September 2026

   Certificate confirming the keynote at ICIEEE-2026, organised by World Research Union and MAHSA University, Kuala Lumpur.

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1. BDAA 2026 — committee (listed as Lakshmanan Muralidharan)
   https://bdaa-conference.com/
2. RIVF 2026 — committee, TPC Members
   https://rivf2026.org/committee.html

• Link needed: UT Austin / Great Learning program page
• Link needed: IEEE IEMCON committee page