Prithvi Sekhar Pagala, PhD

Global Learning Lead - AI Technology Skills @ Perficient

About

Passion for competency building at scale across geographies and talent pools * AI, System Engineering, Model Based Design and Product Development * Consulting, Research and Mentoring ** Conferences Committee Member, Projects and Thesis ** Member Board of Studies, Reviewer IEEE Transactions, Member INCOSE * Digital Technologies For Learning Experience and Impact Publications : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jxSZfGMAAAAJ&hl=en (Google Scholar Profile)

Country

India

City

Bengaluru

Industry

Higher Education

Skill

Employee Learning & Development, Skill Taxonomy, MBD, Systems Engineering, Product Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Leadership, Matlab, C, Control Systems Design, Algorithms, Simulations, Engineering, Programming, Robotics, Testing, Machine Learning, Data Science, C++, Simulink

Experience

Global Learning Lead - AI Technology Skills

Perficient

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

• Drive enterprise-wide AI capability building • Aligning AI strategy into measurable skills outcomes working with business and client priorities

Professor of Practice & Head of Department

GITAM School of Technology, EECE Department, Bengaluru

2024-1 - 2026-2 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Greater Bengaluru Area

Responsible for the Department of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering of GITAM School of Technology Bangalore Campus. Research Software Defined Vehicles Focus Area Control Systems, Model Based Design, AI

Specialist

L&T Technology Services

2020-5 - 2024-1 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible for Global Graduate Competency Development Program - GENESIS and STEPin Responsible for Technical Learning Digital Strategy Driving the Systems Engineering and Model Based Design Technology Tracks

Principal Educator

KPIT

2019-4 - 2020-4 · 1 yr 1 mo

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Responsible for GENESIS - Graduate Competency Development Program Responsible for EduOnline Platform (Global Strategy and Delivery) - Digital Platform for Competency Development Responsible for PACE (Technical from Engineering Academy)- Program for Academic Collaboration and Engagement Co-Faculty of Linear Controls and Machine Learning Courses of Higher Education Initiative with Coventry University

Specialist

KPIT

2017-10 - 2019-4 · 1 yr 7 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for GENESIS - Graduate Competency Development Program Responsible for EduOnline Platform - Digital Platform for Competency Development Co-Faculty of Linear Controls and Machine Learning Courses of Higher Education Initiative with Coventry University Contributor for developing external collaborations with premier institutions under PACE (Program for Academic Collaboration and Engagement) and product partners in the Automotive industry

Senior Executive

KPIT

2015-12 - 2017-10 · 1 yr 11 mos

Bengaluru Area, India

Control System Competency Model Based Design GENESIS - Graduate Competency Development Program Responsible for designing and developing competency framework in alignment with the business needs of Automotive Business Unit

Faculty Member - Higher Education (Masters)

Coventry University

2017-5 - 2020-4 · 3 yrs

Co-faculty for Linear Control Engineering Co-facilitator for Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Researcher and Faculty (Assistant Professor, ECE Department, Engineering School)

Acharya

2014-12 - 2015-11 · 1 yr

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Work mainly on Control systems, Embedded projects for healthcare, robotics and data acquisition, Along with teaching at the Department of Electronics and Communication. Teaching: Control Systems, Linear Integrated Circuits and Logic Design Research: Robotics and Automation SPOC: Idea Cell at Acharya, Wipro Technovation Center Collaboration Industry Collaboration: Sasken Communication Technologies Limited and Telerad RxTx

Early Stage Researcher

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

2011-7 - 2014-7 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

Puresafe Project "Preventing hUman intervention for increased SAfety in inFrastructures Emitting ionizing radiation (Puresafe) ", is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) project funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme Marie Curie Actions. The project includes 8 different international organizations including universities, international research organizations and industrial partners. Work Package 2 and Research Package 8: The objective is to design and prove through prototypes and simulation models the ability of reconfigurable modular robot system, in performing maintenance task in particle accelerator environment like CERN or any similar ionizing radiation facility and complex environment. Project Link: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/264336

Visiting Researcher

CERN

2011-6 - 2014-7 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Geneva, Switzerland

Needs gathering Radiation protection Test cases and validation for modular robots scenarios

Visiting Researcher

Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018

2014-2 - 2014-3 · 2 mos

Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland

Design of control algorithms and testing stability of a modular robot configurations

Visiting Researcher

Oxford Technologies Ltd

2013-3 - 2013-5 · 3 mos

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Industrial manipulator, Design of scalable connector interface for modularity in robots

Education

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Robotics and Automation

2011 - 2014 · 3 yrs

Thesis title: Design and Evaluation of Reconfigurable Modular Robot Systems for Execution of Maintenance Tasks in Large Scientific Facilities. Thesis defense: July 7th, 2014 Highest honours (Cum Laude) and International Excellence Mention Marie Curie Fellowship by European Union