Rajiv Shah is an artificial intelligence engineer, professor, speaker, and technology popularizer (edutainer). He currently works as an AI Agentic Engineer at OpenHands, helping companies implement modern AI solutions while training specialists on what truly works in practice.
He has over 100 implemented cases in AI, ranging from recommendation systems to RAG pipelines, in corporate environments, startups, and academic research. In his experience, failures are more valuable than successes and are more often related to misdefining the problem rather than the algorithms themselves.
He holds over 20 patents, more than 1000 scientific citations, and a PhD from the University of Illinois (UIUC). He specializes in the practical application of AI.
Today, Rajiv shares his knowledge with an audience of over 100,000 professionals through talks, videos, and educational content at AI conferences, where he is known by the nickname @rajistics.
