Space Conference Speaker

Ankur Verma

Founder & CEO, Lightscline

Years of ISDC:
2025

Find Them At:
Space Business

Dr. Ankur Verma has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Penn State, has been a 30 under 30 honoree by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and has published frontier AI research in top journals like Nature Scientific Reports, Procedia CIRP, and Manufacturing Letters.
Lightscline is solving the foundational problem of efficiently analyzing TeraBytes of sensor data in applications across industrial AI, satellites, wearables, distributed fiber optics sensing, etc. By exploiting the redundancy of real-world sensor data, Lightscline’s proprietary AI technology automatically identifies the 10% important data for tasks like anomaly detection, classification, etc., reducing 90% of the AI infra and people related time/costs.


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