
Akshay Kumar Yadav
Co-founder & Managing Director
Akshay Kumar Yadav is an AI and LLM engineer, the co-founder and Managing Director of Run AI Intelligence, and Co-founder and CTO of The Astro Nova, where he architected its LLM-powered AI engine.
He has 10+ years in technology, since his first internship in 2016. A computer-science engineer (B.Tech, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, 2018), he began at GlobalLogic curating machine-learning training data for Google Lens in its early years. He then took machine learning into business, from Covid-19 outbreak prediction at a Noida start-up to a market-trend model at a stock-broking firm.
At BDO in Bengaluru he investigated fraud for US banks, an airline and an automobile manufacturer, and brought LLMs and generative AI into his team's investigations. With the firm's onshore team, he built a fraud-detection proof of concept that helped win a key client.
He was a runner-up at TechGig Code Gladiators 2017, which set the Guinness World Record for the largest programming competition. He holds a data science specialisation, and a certification in data science and AI from Intellipaat, run with IIT Madras.

