The Tharakans

Chief Executive & Technology Officer of AyurDatta, which he co-founded in 2025 to move oncology, hematology, and rare disease programs through clinical development and approval faster. Two decades building clinical research technology, including the industry’s first unified eClinical platform — a system that went on to power over a thousand studies and dozens of drug approvals.

An AI systems engineer and MLOps architect specializing in large language models, reinforcement learning, and responsible AI. She holds a master’s in artificial intelligence from UT Austin and works on the part of the field that decides whether a model ever makes it into production.

An AI Forward Deployed Engineer at IBM, building custom AI solutions alongside clients and getting them running on their own systems. The rest of his time goes to embedded platforms, computer vision, and robots that have to react in milliseconds.

A dedicated high school junior, currently in the stretch where the coursework gets genuinely hard and the groundwork for what comes next gets laid. Putting in the work for it.