IIT, Rice University and KIT research background

Our team has strong experience and ethical financial controls, with long-standing service to highly professional, publicly listed organizations.

B.Tech, IIT BHU Varanasi, Metallurgy (2007) and M.S., Rice University, Materials Science (2010). He strongly believes in research, development and commercialization. He has worked at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Institute of Nanotechnology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and IISc Bangalore. Featured by Rice University: Raghav Wahi '10: powering the future of global energy manufacturing.

Artificial intelligence, computer vision and sensor deployments

Raghav has taken Raspberry Pi based computer vision and wireless sensors from prototype through production deployment. Familiar with OpenCV, OpenWRT router Linux, tcpdump, Wireshark, YOLO, OpenVPN, IoT distributed systems and cloud data collection, RFID sensors, and injection-moulded mechanical cases for sensors.

Offline retail store and garment factory deployments of sensors, with Enalytix.
RFID deployments for lean manufacturing at Sahu Exports, Noida, Delhi NCR.

Computer-vision research figures, on public benchmark images (PASCAL VOC, COCO):

Grad-CAM, Grad-CAM++ and Mixed-CAM attention heatmaps on VOC 2007, VOC 2012 and COCO 2014 images — Attention maps: Grad-CAM, Grad-CAM++ and Mixed-CAM.

Object detection boxes and confidence scores on a train, a cruise ship and an aeroplane across three model variants — Detection confidence across three model variants.

Overlapping motorbike detections comparing CIoU loss with NMS and with DIoU-NMS — Overlapping objects: NMS vs DIoU-NMS.

Proposed anchor boxes, IoU computation and ground-truth box on an image of a roseate spoonbill — Anchor boxes and IoU against ground truth.

Localization uncertainty examples on MS-COCO images: motocross rider, people near a car, baseball catcher, giraffes and a horse rider, with ground-truth and predicted boxes — Localization uncertainty on MS-COCO images.

Diagram of a Grad-CAM++ and Mixed-CAM pipeline from input image through CNN to heatmaps — Grad-CAM++ to Mixed-CAM pipeline.

Materials science and energy storage

His experience spans materials science in energy storage (lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors) and artificial intelligence, especially data collection from sensors. He has hands-on built alpha and beta stage prototypes of flexible supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries (Paper Battery Company, NY-BEST spotlight), with hands-on experience of graphene, carbon nanotubes and materials chemistry (Google Scholar).

Advisor at Rice University, Houston: Prof. P. M. Ajayan, among the top 10 global materials scientists (Google Scholar)
Advisors at KIT Karlsruhe: Prof. T. S. Balaban, Prof. Ralph Krupke, Prof. Aravind Vijayaraghavan
Colleague at UPenn: Prof. Deep Jariwala

Mr. Raghu Wahi joined ITC Limited [NSE: ITC] after his MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur in 1976 and worked in the finance function until he retired from ITC in 2015, after 39 years of service.

ITC Ltd. is the third most valuable Indian conglomerate by market capitalization, with a presence in cigarettes and tobacco, hotels, paper and other FMCG segments.

He brings strong financial function processes, having worked in the finance department of ITC's tobacco and cigarettes businesses, and headed finance in the hotels and travel segments.

References: Mr. K. Vaidyanathan, Mr. S. C. Shekhar, Mr. Nakul Anand.

Enalytix is an AI video analytics company that has done video content analytics for CCTVs since 2015, deployed in 4,000 sites across 120+ cities.

Rajul Tandon has served Indian retail with data and software since 2004–05, and has worked in computer vision AI since 2015. He holds an MCA from JNU, New Delhi, and an MBA from Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts.

Reference: Manu Tandon, CIO, Beth Israel Lahey Health.

CoreFlex Solutions Inc. is an applications services company headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, delivering Salesforce IT services across the USA, UK and Europe.

Rohit Dhawan is based in London, UK, and leads a team of 700+ software engineers.

A corporate finance advisor to VoltQ holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Education and employment history

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Mrs. Savitri Tandon Wahi
Dr. Pashupati Nath Wahi
Mr. Raghu Wahi

Gold medal of Banaras Hindu University awarded to Savitri Tandon — Savitri Tandon Wahi: gold medal, Banaras Hindu University, 1946.

Reverse of the medal engraved Arya Adarsha Mahila Padak, awarded 1st, Savitri Tandon — The medal's reverse, engraved to Savitri Tandon.

Framed distinguished alumna award letter from BHU Varanasi — Savitri Tandon Wahi: distinguished alumna award, BHU Varanasi.

Framed address presented to Dr. P. N. Wahi by the students of Medical College, Agra — Dr. Pashupati Nath Wahi: address from the students of Medical College, Agra.

Engraved silver plate presented to Raghu Wahi by ITC — Raghu Wahi: silver plate from ITC Ltd, marking his 1976–2015 career.

See what the team has deployed

Raspberry Pi fleets in retail stores, RFID on garment factory floors, people counting on OpenWRT routers.

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