Sashikumaar Ganesan

Prof. Sashikumaar Ganesan is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he leads the AI for Research and Engineering eXcellence (AiREX) Lab. He also serves as the Founder and Chief AI Officer of Zenteiq AiTech Innovations and has held leadership positions including Chairman of the CDS Department (2018-2024) and Programme Director for Advanced Programs in Gen AI, Computational Data Science and AI, and AI & MLOps since 2020.

His research interests include:

• Scientific Machine Learning (SciML)
• Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs)
• High-performance computing
• Hardware-aware numerical methods
• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
• Computational Science

Prof. Ganesan's work focuses on integrating scientific computing with machine learning to advance AI applications in scientific and engineering domains. His research spans AI for aerospace and defense applications, scientific machine learning, MLOps frameworks, and computational science including finite element analysis and fluid dynamics modeling. He has developed science-native Foundation Models through his company Zenteiq.ai to enhance AI-driven R&D in aerospace and defense sectors.

His significant projects include the Indo-German Partnership Program (2020-2024) focused on hardware-aware numerical schemes for multi-GPU supercomputers and the Shell India project on Large Scale Simulation augmented by AI for wind turbine farms. He has mentored over 25 students and published more than 60 works, including the book 'Finite Elements: Theory and Algorithms' (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

Prof. Ganesan teaches courses including 'Generative and Agentic AI in Practice' (2025), 'AI and Machine Learning' (2024), and 'High-Performance Computing and Data Science,' while also contributing to societal discourse through COVID-19 projections featured in major Indian media outlets.