Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur Ph.D

Chief AI Scientist @ aaquarian.ai

About

Entrepreneurial Product Development, Engineering, Implementation, Product Integration & Consulting professional AI & ML, Data Science & Governance in BFSI domain with proven leadership in the areas of Product integration around Core Banking products, AI & ML, Data Sciences and IT - GRC consulting 20+ years of comprehensive experience covers entire software development life cycle, System integration, Product Development, Sales, Product Management & Marketing, Consulting Practice Management & Program management skills. Good at leveraging technology to provide businesses with strategic advantage. Highly proactive, dynamic & and seasoned technologist with experience in conceptualizing, building & sustaining independent practice lines & function. Internationally recognized as a thought leader in the areas of IT Transformation, Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Consulting and Compliance . Able to communicate the value proposition of IT Solutions & Consulting offerings to executive management in business terms. Strong leader, able to manage diverse multinational teams of direct and indirect reports and handling cross-functional, multi-cultural teams across time zones. Core Competencies: • Core Banking Product. Integration • Digital Banking • Mobile Banking Development • Omni Channel Implementations • Governance, Risk & Compliance • Data Privacy & Factory grade Data migration • Cloud Migration & Product As a service • Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application (OFSAA) Integration • Management Consulting • Corporate & Retail Banking • Islamic Banking • Product implementations around Oracle’s E-Business Suite, Siebel CRM, EPM Applications such as Hyperion Financial Capex & Workforce & SOA • Planning Master Data Management & Large scale BFSI Data migration • Large Account Management & Global Program Management • Global Delivery Leadership with P&L management • Integration of Oracle FSDF using ETL Technologies • Reporting from Core Banking (FCUBS), OFSAA platforms using BI tools

Country

United Arab Emirates

City

Dubai

Industry

Think Tanks

Skill

AI Ethics & Governance & Resposnsible AI, Data Privacy & Governance, Core Banking Product Engineering & Implementation, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Core Banking, Digital Banking, Mobile Application Development, Enterprise Risk & Compliance, Risk Data Aggregation, Omni Channel Implementation, Risk Visualization, Global Sales & Marketing, Machine Learning, Core Banking Product Integration, Islamic Banking, AML, Global Delivery, Pre-sales, Practice Management

Experience

Chief AI Scientist

aaquarian.ai

2021-7 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Aaquarians.ai is an AI Ethics, Governance, Risk and Compliance Product platform and a Domain specific AI Audit Framework. We are in the business of helping organizations to leverage AI technologies ethically, fairly & responsibly and comply with AI regulatory requirements using established AI Governance Frameworks & practices.

Senior Research Fellow

Center for Responsible AI, (CeRAI) IITM, Chennai

2024-2 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Center for Responsible AI (CeRAI) is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras. The centre envisions to be a premier research centre for both fundamental and applied research in Responsible AI with immediate impact in deploying AI systems in the Indian ecosystem

Member - Multistakeholder Experts Group (MEG)

GPAI

2023-12 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities. Built around a shared commitment to the OECD Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence, GPAI brings together engaged minds and expertise from science, industry, civil society, governments of member countries & European Union, international organisations and academia that share values to bridge the gap between theory and practice on AI by supporting cutting-edge research and applied activities on AI-related priorities. GPAI has a Council and a Steering Committee, supported by a Secretariat hosted by the OECD, and two Centers of Expertise based out of Montreal (CEIMIA)& Paris (INRIA) GPAI aims to provide a mechanism for sharing multidisciplinary research and identifying key issues among AI practitioners, with the objective of facilitating international collaboration, reducing duplication, acting as a global reference point for specific AI issues, and ultimately promoting trust in and the adoption of trustworthy AI.

Expert Member – UNESCO AI Ethics Experts without Borders (AIEB) Network

UNESCO

2025-4 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Non-Resident Fellow of Practice - AI Safety

Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government

2025-5 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Associated external researcher - Responsible AI

DaSCI research institute, Universidad de Granada, Spain

2025-3 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Spain

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Information Science & Engineering

New Horizon College of Engineering

2019-7 - 2023-6 · 4 yrs

Bangalore, India

Research Group Member

Center for AI and Digital Policy

2022-8 - 2022-12 · 5 mos

Washington DC (Remote)

Chief Product Officer & AI Scientist

GEMS Education

2020-9 - 2021-6 · 10 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Chief Data Scientist & CTO

BankBuddy.ai

2017-4 - 2020-9 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Bangalore

BankBuddy is an Artificial Intelligence Financial Technology (FinTech) product. BankBuddy helps banks and financial institutions with customer experience management, hyper personalization & operations automation. BankBuddy Leverages NLP, Machine learning, Deep learning, Big Data & Computer vision to provide innovative customer experience automation products for financial institutions covering Retail banking , corporate banking, investment banking & Insurance.