Director

Shri. Sunny Manchanda, is a Computer Scientist who graduated from IIT Delhi specializing in Artificial Intelligence. In academia, he along with Prof. Aaditeshwar Seth were driven towards finding answer to India’s development story using AI technologies like Satellite Data Analysis in order to contribute towards data driven policy making.

Prior to taking over charge of DYSL-AI, he was working in the domain of complex airborne systems of AEW&C Netra Team. As a computer scientist, he was initially chosen to work in the Aerospace domain of Indian Defence Research and was awarded the coveted Vice Chancellor Commendation Certificate for the top position in Aeronautics stream at the prestigious Indian Defence Training School at Pune.

He is currently heading DYSL-AI with focus on Vision, Speech and Language Technology.