Nidhin Sreekumar, PhD, currently serves as Director at Invent, a privately funded research and product development company specializing in interdisciplinary research in Biotechnology and Material sciences since December 2020. Additionally, Nidhin holds the position of Process Consultant at Bud Ecosystem Inc., which focuses on developing offline, edge-friendly, and real-time foundational model systems for AGI. Nidhin has also been an Associate Professor at Kalasalingam University since July 2018. Prior roles include Chief Research Scientist at Accubits Technologies Inc., and Assistant Professor at Sree Chitra Thirunal College Of Engineering and Kalasalingam University. Nidhin began their career as Lab Head at Aeka Biochemicals Pvt. Ltd. and as a Research Fellow at CSIR-NIIST. Academic achievements include a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Calicut and ongoing studies for an MBA from Indira Gandhi National Open University.