Portrait of Aki Gogikar

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Let's make private AI
operational and accountable.

I speak about designing private AI around organizations, deterministic boundaries for consequential agent actions, customer-controlled infrastructure, and the evidence organizations need before a promising demo becomes a dependable system.

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Aki is the professional name; books and research papers use Akhilesh Gogikar. Both names refer to the same person.

Short bio

For introductions

Aki Gogikar is the founder and Executive Vice President of Mendel Info Labs. He leads product and engineering across OneNew and ActPass, building private, controlled AI services and separate, deterministic governance for consequential agent actions.

Research bio

For technical audiences

Akhilesh (Aki) Gogikar builds auditable AI systems and studies machine learning optimization. His public work includes a compute-matched study of adaptive Runge-Kutta methods for Adam, published on arXiv with code, data, and figures.

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These topics work for technical, executive, and regulated-industry audiences. I favor concrete tradeoffs over generic AI predictions.

Private AI services

Built around the organization

Why privacy-aware teams need tailored workspaces, approved data and tools, and ongoing service — not another generic model subscription.

Agent security

Put the boundary outside the model

Why consequential actions need deterministic permission checks before they execute.

Private deployment

Capability without data surrender

How customer-controlled infrastructure changes deployment, operations, and accountability.

Research practice

Publish the inconvenient result

What compute-matched experiments reveal when a sophisticated optimizer does not generalize better.

Public work

Check the evidence.

Start with the products, paper, and reproducibility trail rather than a list of unsupported superlatives.

Products

OneNew & ActPass

OneNew's private-AI platform direction and ActPass's independent permission boundary for consequential agent actions.

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Paper

RK-Adam study

A compute-matched study of adaptive Runge-Kutta step control in machine learning optimization.

Read on arXiv

Code & data

RK4Optimizer

The public code, data, figures, and research artifacts supporting the paper.

Open GitHub

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