Dr. Kumar Padmanabh is working as a senior researcher in EBTIC, a research lab of British Telecom. He has expertise in "Machine Learning” and “IoT” and he has been solving industrial problems related to Predictive Maintenance and Sustainability. He has more than 16 years of experience in Industrial research labs of Bosch, General Motors and in Infosys. He has been the lead inventor of more than 25 patents and author of 42 research papers.

Dr. Kumar Padmanabh earned a degree of PhD in wireless sensor network from IIT Kharagpur and an Executive Management from IIM Bangalore. His project was adjudged as second best project of year 2021 in the domain of AI/Automation in entire UK. He is recipient of MIT Technology Review award of year-2010 and Infosys Thought Leadership Award of 2010. He is actively engaged in creative writing and so far he has published three books (fiction)