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Manaranjan Pradhan

• An independent consultant and trainer with over two decades of industry experience, specializing in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning and Big Data Engineering.
• Led the design and deployment of enterprise-scale technology solutions for global organizations including Hewlett Packard, Home Depot, Motorola, CKWB Bank, Procter & Gamble, Big Basket, Eureka Forbes.
• Trained 1,000+ professionals in AI and machine learning at leading organizations such as Goldman Sachs, Cisco, HP, Accenture, Tesco, Intuit, and others.
• An adjunct faculty at IIM, Bangalore, ISB, Hyderabad and Jio Institute

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Publications

Books

HBR Cases

1. Customer Analytics at Big Basket – Product Recommendations
2. Improving Lead Generation at Eureka Forbes Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Research & Conference Papers

1. Beyond Zero-Shot: Enhancing LLM Financial Complaint Classification with Relevancy-Driven RAG-Based Few-Shot Prompting, M. Pradhan, N. Vemprala, N. Gudigantala, HICSS 59 Conference, Hawai, Jan 2026
2. Improving Machine Learning Workflows Using the Normative-Descriptive-Prescriptive Decision Framework - Applied AI Lettes Vol. 6, Issue 2
3. Intelligence assistant using deep learning: use case in crop disease prediction - International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining Vol. 25, No. 3-4
4. Closing the Social-Semantic Gap: SPSD for Edge-Based Prompt Compression in Cloud LLM Inference - arXiv:2606.19364

Co-authored the best-selling book (First Edition) Machine Learning using Python

Education

• Business Analytics and Intelligence, IIM Bangalore (2014-2015)
• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University College of Engineering (VSSUT), Odisha (1994-1998)