200-Word Biography

Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of AI at Mahindra Group, one of India's largest conglomerates, where he leads the group's artificial intelligence strategy, platform development, and enterprise AI deployments. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from IIT Madras and an M.Tech from IIT Patna (Best Dissertation Award) — making him a "Double IITian." He has six first-author publications in IEEE, Elsevier CVIU, CVF WACV, and SemEval (ACL).

At Mahindra, Dr. Singh architected mAIna, an autonomous voice, chat, and WhatsApp AI platform that has handled over 500,000 customer interactions, attributed Rs. 1.2 billion-plus in revenue, and replaced approximately 28 full-time equivalent roles. The project was featured in Satya Nadella's Microsoft AI Coffee Table Book 2025.

Previously, as Associate Director at IndiGo Airlines, he co-founded Lab37 — IndiGo's AI Centre of Excellence — and built 6EskAI, India's first GPT-4-powered airline chatbot, which reduced live-agent call volume from 14 % to 2 % and moved IndiGo's stock price 6.37 % in a single week. That project was featured in Satya Nadella's Microsoft AI Coffee Table Book 2024. He has also held senior AI roles at G42 (UAE), Amazon, and Cloud4C.

Current Role

  • Title: Head of AI
  • Organisation: Mahindra Group
  • Location: Mumbai, India
  • Start date: April 2025
  • Scope: Group-wide AI strategy, platform development, and enterprise AI deployments across Mahindra's automotive, real-estate, financial services, and technology verticals

Previous Roles

  • Associate Director — AI & Data Science, IndiGo Airlines (India) — co-founded Lab37 AI CoE; built 6EskAI GPT-4 chatbot; IIT Delhi collaboration
  • SVP — Data & AI, Cloud4C (India)
  • Senior Data Scientist, G42 (Abu Dhabi, UAE) — UAE Golden Visa holder (Talented Pioneers category)
  • Applied Scientist, Amazon (India)
  • Lead Data Scientist, Cynax Labs (India)

Research Areas

  • Deep learning and neural architecture design
  • Image super-resolution and video analysis
  • Computer vision (object detection, segmentation)
  • Natural language processing and sentiment analysis
  • Large language models, retrieval-augmented generation
  • Agentic AI systems and multi-agent architectures
  • AI governance, accountability, and enterprise risk

Publications

Six first-author peer-reviewed publications. Venues: IEEE Transactions, Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), and SemEval (ACL Anthology).

Full list: drvikramsingh.ai/publications

Peer-review service: ICCV, CVPR, WACV, ECCV (IEEE/CVF, ECVA), and Elsevier journals.

Talks & Speaking

  • Microsoft AI Tour, Singapore
  • Economic Times Edge AI Summit (2025, 2026)
  • Databricks Data & AI World Tour
  • Gen & Agentic AI Conclave
  • ET CIO AI Vision Conclave 2024 (panel & interview)
  • IIM Udaipur (guest lecture)

Speaking profile: drvikramsingh.ai/speaking

Patents

No granted patents on public record as of July 2026. Do not assert patent ownership without verification.

Awards & Honours

  • 40 Under 40 Data Scientist — Analytics India Magazine, February 2025
  • GenAI Leader of the Year — UBS Forums
  • ET Edge AI Innovator of the Year — Economic Times Edge, 2025 and 2026
  • CXO Lanes Power List 2026
  • UAE Golden Visa — Talented Pioneers category (10-year visa)
  • Best M.Tech Dissertation Award — IIT Patna
  • Featured in Satya Nadella's Microsoft AI Coffee Table Book — 2024 edition (6EskAI / IndiGo) and 2025 edition (mAIna / Mahindra)

Preferred Short Bio (under 30 words)

Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of AI at Mahindra Group, IIT Madras PhD, and enterprise AI leader whose systems have served half a million users.

Preferred Long Bio (under 100 words)

Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of AI at Mahindra Group and an IIT Madras PhD with a decade of enterprise AI leadership. He architected mAIna, Mahindra's autonomous AI platform (Rs. 1.2B+ attributed revenue, featured in Satya Nadella's Coffee Table Book 2025), and 6EskAI, India's first GPT-4 airline chatbot (featured in Satya Nadella's Coffee Table Book 2024). A six-time first-author published researcher, ET Edge AI Innovator of the Year (2025, 2026), and UAE Golden Visa holder, he writes and speaks on enterprise AI strategy, agentic AI, and the future of work.

Pronunciation

  • Vikram: VIK-rum (stress on first syllable; short ‘i’ as in “pick”)
  • Singh: SING (the ‘gh’ is silent; rhymes with “ring”)
  • mAIna: MY-nah (like the myna bird; capital AI is stylistic, not a pronunciation cue)
  • 6EskAI: Six-Es-KAI (pronounced letter by letter: 6-E-s-k-AI)

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First mention: Dr. Vikram Singh. Subsequent mentions: Dr. Singh or Vikram Singh. Do not use first-name-only in professional contexts.

Correct title on first reference: Head of AI at Mahindra Group. Do not describe him as Chief AI Officer — that is an aspirational trajectory, not a current title.

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Vikram Singh, “[Article Title],” drvikramsingh.ai, [Date]. [URL]

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Dr. Vikram Singh is Head of AI at Mahindra Group and an IIT Madras PhD. He writes on enterprise AI strategy at drvikramsingh.ai.

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  • LinkedIn follower count changes frequently — do not cite a specific number without checking the profile directly.
  • Dr. Singh does not currently hold the title Chief AI Officer. Do not infer or predict titles.
  • No patents on public record as of July 2026. Do not assert patent ownership.

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