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Amiya Patanaik, Ph.D.

AI Transformation Executive Technical Founder Solutions Architect

From sleep-science labs to enterprise GenAI — fifteen years turning deep research into production systems and commercial outcomes.

Portrait of Amiya Patanaik

FIG. 00 · THE AUTHOR

01 — PROFILE

Executive profile

Dynamic AI Transformation Executive, Technical Founder, and Specialist Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience bridging deep-tech applied science, cloud architecture, and commercial strategy. Proven track record as a C-level executive in VC-backed startups, adept at designing and scaling LLM-powered agentic workflows while owning regional business pipelines.

Combines a GM mindset with technical depth to act as a trusted advisor to founders, CxOs, and developers. Excels at driving land-and-expand commercial motions, creating scalable reference architectures, and transforming theoretical AI use cases into production-scale, business-critical enterprise infrastructure.

Published in top-tier journals including PNAS, Neuroimage, and Nature Scientific Reports, with deep expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, neural networks, and large language models.

02 — CAREER

Experience

REVERSE-CHRONOLOGICAL · 2009 – PRESENT

  1. Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder

    CURRENT

    NexDoc AI Inc., USA

    MAR 2025 — PRESENT

    • Architected NexDoc's document-synthesis engine and proprietary “Blueprint” technology — a nine-step automated pipeline that codifies human expertise into scalable GenAI workflows, implemented as a multi-agent system.
    • Designed scalable RAG architectures and data-access bridges integrating 300M+ global sources with enterprise proprietary data; led cloud infrastructure to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA compliance.
    • Manages the regional engagement pipeline, securing lighthouse design partners and driving top-line revenue; develops reference architectures and playbooks for reusable, hallucination-free enterprise AI.
  2. Independent AI Consultant

    CONCURRENT

    ClimateAI Inc., USA

    SEP 2024 — JUN 2025

    • Developed a machine-learning framework using eight distinct models to integrate dynamic weather data and behavioral theory into consumer-spending predictions, enabling strategic decision-making across multiple retail sectors.
  3. Chief Technology Officer / Head Data Scientist

    DeliveRx Solutions Pte Ltd., Singapore

    MAY 2024 — FEB 2025

    • Drove end-to-end development of a highly scalable Generative AI platform — containers, microservices, RAG — automating complex document synthesis in regulated healthcare environments while guarding against hallucination and misinformation.
    • Partnered directly with client business leaders and technical teams, translating GenAI capabilities into actionable roadmaps, automated release plans, and measurable business outcomes.
    • Managed distributed teams of ML engineers, contractors, and developers; established open-source adoption, MLOps, and high-velocity CI/CD pipelines under strict compliance and performance standards.
  4. Co-founder & Director

    Neurobit (Group of Companies), USA · Singapore · India

    MAY 2018 — JUN 2024

    • Bootstrapped and scaled a deep-tech healthcare-AI startup to 25+ employees — including 5 data scientists and 6 engineers — across three offices; secured US$1.5M in early-stage funding and negotiated a major IP licensing agreement with Duke-NUS Medical School.
    • Directed R&D and engineering to build state-of-the-art AI diagnostic models under ISO-13485 quality control, achieving adoption across 150+ universities and research centers on distributed cloud infrastructure.
    • Drove a land-and-expand motion presenting technical visions to clinical boards and developers; secured foundational partnerships and clinical pilots with Changi General Hospital, NUS, and Columbia Medical.
  5. Founder & Director

    CONCURRENT

    Arkenstone Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India

    2014 — 2020

    • Launched and grew the “Elements of Photography” app to 1M+ downloads with a 4.2+ rating, demonstrating end-to-end product development and user-acquisition expertise.
  6. Entrepreneur in Residence

    Entrepreneur First (EF), Singapore

    FEB — MAY 2018

    • Selected among the top 100 deep-tech talents out of 4,000 applicants for the global VC-backed incubator; validated product–market fit, built strong teams, and rapid-prototyped commercial deep-tech opportunities.
  7. Postdoctoral Research Fellow

    Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

    2014 — 2018

    • Conducted research on sleep, cognition, and auditory neuro-modulation techniques to improve sleep quality; published in Nature, PNAS, and Neuroimage and presented at leading conferences.
    • Led complex clinical trials and developed deep-learning systems for real-time sleep staging; patented the core real-time AI analysis technology that became the foundational IP for Neurobit.
  8. System Integration Engineer

    Solar Semiconductor Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, India

    2009 — 2010

    • Invented and commercialized Surya Ganga grid- and battery-free solar pumps for Indian farmers; led development of SolarConnect, a solar-powered cellular base station, and implemented diverse solar power plants promoting regional energy self-sufficiency.
    • Received the Best Employee of the Year CEO Excellence Award within a year of joining.

By the numbers

15+
YEARS OF
EXPERIENCE
30+
PEER-REVIEWED
PUBLICATIONS
3
PATENTS
US & WIPO
US$1.5M+
EARLY-STAGE FUNDING
SECURED
150+
RESEARCH CENTERS
USING HIS TECHNOLOGY
12
H-INDEX
I10-INDEX 13

03 — CAPABILITIES

Core competencies

BUSINESS & EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

  • Strategic planning
  • New venture creation
  • Fundraising
  • Investor relations
  • P&L management
  • Enterprise B2B sales
  • Go-to-market strategy
  • Deal structuring
  • Negotiations
  • Market analysis
  • Seed-to-scale strategy
  • VC / PE dynamics
  • Technical due diligence
  • Founder mentorship
  • C-suite advisory
  • Reference architecture design
  • Data-driven storytelling

GENAI & CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

  • LLM orchestration
  • Agentic workflows
  • RAG
  • Distributed systems
  • AWS / GCP / Azure
  • MLOps
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Python
  • C / C++
  • Java
  • MATLAB · Lua
  • TensorFlow
  • PyTorch
  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • SQL / NoSQL
  • FHIR / HL7
  • ETL pipelines
  • Tableau · Power BI · Plotly

PROJECT & TEAM MANAGEMENT

  • Cross-functional leadership
  • Agile / Scrum
  • Resource allocation
  • Budget management
  • Risk assessment

RESEARCH & ANALYTICAL

  • Experimental design
  • Quantitative & qualitative analysis
  • Physiological signal processing — EEG · ECG · EMG · fMRI
  • Scientific & technical writing

COMMUNICATION & INTERPERSONAL

  • Storytelling
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Team building
  • Conflict resolution

04 — SELECTED WORK

Publications & patents

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  1. 2023 · FRONTIERS IN NEUROLOGY

    “Benchmarking performance of an automatic polysomnography scoring system in a population with suspected sleep disorders.”

    Choo, Mok, Oh, et al.

  2. 2019 · SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (NATURE)

    “Large-scale data from wearables reveal regional disparities in sleep patterns that persist across age and sex.”

    Ong, Tandi, Patanaik, Lo, Chee

  3. 2018 · SLEEP

    “An end-to-end framework for real-time automatic sleep stage classification.”

    Patanaik, Ong, Gooley, Ancoli-Israel, Chee

  4. 2018 · NEUROIMAGE

    “Dynamic functional connectivity and its behavioral correlates beyond vigilance.”

    Patanaik, Tandi, Ong, Wang, Zhou, Chee

  5. 2016 · PNAS

    “Spontaneous eyelid closures link vigilance fluctuation with fMRI dynamic connectivity states.”

    Wang, Ong, Patanaik, Zhou, Chee

  6. 2015 · SLEEP

    “Classifying vulnerability to sleep deprivation using baseline measures of psychomotor vigilance.”

    Patanaik, Kwoh, Chua, Gooley, Chee

05 — VOICE

Talks & thought leadership

15+ INVITED KEYNOTES · SELECTED

  • 2024

    “Leave your mark — building a career in STEM”Global Indian International School, Singapore

  • 2023

    “Riding the AI Wave”Capstone Seminar, National University of Singapore

  • 2023

    “AI and the future of sleep medicine”All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani

  • 2022

    “Scaling Deep-Tech Companies”Scaling Secrets Podcast, Episode 17

  • 2020

    “Why go the entrepreneurial route?”Envisage E-Summit

  • 2018

    “Leveraging big data and AI to transform business”DataX, Singapore

06 — RECOGNITION

Honors & awards

  • 2023Future of Health Award (3rd place), FTR4H — Future for Health Conference · representing Neurobit
  • 2022Winner, Nisshinbo Audio Innovation Challenge · representing Neurobit
  • 2019Winner, Singtel Innov8 healthcare tech startup pitch · representing Neurobit
  • 2019Top 100 companies of 2,400, Singapore Week of Innovation and Technology
  • 2019Top 100 companies in the Asia Pacific, Echelon Asia Summit
  • 2010–14Nanyang Technological University Research Scholarship
  • 2010Best Employee of the Year, CEO Excellence Award, Solar Semiconductor
  • 2009Best Undergraduate Project Award, Systems Society, IIT Kharagpur
  • 2008Best Paper (special mention), ICVGIP Conference, IEEE

07 — TRAINING

Education

2010 — 2014

Ph.D., Computer Science & Engineering

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Thesis: “Vulnerability to Sleep Deprivation: A Drift Diffusion Model Perspective.”

Advisors: Dr. Kwoh Chee Keong, Dr. Vitali Zagorodnov

NTU RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP

2005 — 2009

B.Tech., Energy Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur

Thesis: “Open Domain Factoid Question Answering System.”

Advisors: Dr. Sudeshna Sarkar, Dr. Sarit Kumar Das

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