State of Applied AI in 2025 Report

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti is an Applied Science Tech Lead and leads initiatives to develop and deploy production-ready generative AI solutions enterprise clients. With over 9 years of experience in machine learning, she has published more than 35 research papers at top-tier AI conferences, including NeurIPS, AAAI, and CVPR.

Aishwarya has taught professional courses on generative AI at renowned institutions like MIT and Oxford. She has also designed free courses that have reached over 8,000 students globally and have formed the foundation for several academic programs and industry training curricula.

Recognized as one of the most prominent voices in enterprise AI, with over 95,000 professionals following her on LinkedIn, she is a sought-after thought leader frequently invited to speak at leadi

Aishwarya actively collaborates with leading research professors and provides strategic advisory to organizations, enabling the

Kiriti Badam is a member of the technical staff at OpenAI, with over a decade of experience designing high-impact enterprise AI systems. He specializes in AI-centric infrastructure, with deep expertise in large-scale compute, data engineering, and storage systems.

Prior to OpenAI, Kiriti was a founding engineer at Kumo.ai, a Forbes AI 50 startup, where he led the development of infrastructure that enabled training hundreds of models daily—driving significant ARR growth for enterprise clients.

Kiriti brings a rare blend of startup agility and enterprise-scale depth, having worked at companies like Google, Samsung, Databricks, and Kumo.ai. At Google Ads, he built globally distributed key-value stores that powered ad systems generating tens of billions in annual revenue.

He holds a Master’s degr