Meet Our
FOUNDERS
Visionaries driving the future of AI.

NAYANJYOTI KALITA
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Khyontek AI
Expert in NLP and machine learning for low-resource languages.
- Background in NLP and ML, specializing in low-resource systems for Assamese and Manipuri.
- Deep technical expertise with hands-on experience building early-stage ventures in Northeast India.
- BIRAC BIG awardee, successfully navigating government-funded innovation from the ground up.

DR. PRITAM DEKA
Founder & CEO
Khyontek AI
Specializes in Vision-Language Models, LLMs, and trustworthy AI.
- PhD at Queen's University Belfast focusing on trustworthy AI and health misinformation.
- Expertise in Vision-Language Models, Large Language Models, and business process intelligence.
- Published research spanning multimodal reasoning, document understanding, and AI-driven knowledge extraction.
Meet Our
ADVISORS
Guiding expertise. Building impact.

RANJAN DEKA
Full-Stack Developer
11+ Years Experience
Full Stack Developer with over 11 years of experience in building and delivering enterprise applications across e-commerce and telecom.
- Full Stack Developer with over 11 years of experience building and delivering enterprise applications.
- Expertise spans .NET, C#, JavaScript, React.js, and Node.js across e-commerce and telecommunications domains.
- Known for leading teams, delivering high-quality solutions, and embracing emerging technologies, including AI-driven development tools.

SRUTISMA HAZARIKA
Co-Founding Partner
S&N Legal
Distinguished advocate with a robust foundation in economics and law, specializing in international contracts, labor laws, and dispute resolution.
- Co-Founding Partner of S&N Legal with a robust foundation in both economics and law.
- Highly regarded for adept handling of international contracts, labor laws, and matrimonial disputes.
- Known for sharp legal insight, successfully mediating high-conflict cases, complex business disputes, and regulatory matters.
- Dedicated to practical solutions, meticulous attention to detail, and upholding professional excellence.

DR. PAWAN K MISHRA
Assistant Professor, CSE
IIIT Guwahati | Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)
Assistant Professor at IIIT Guwahati working in Graph Theory and Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Location Theory, and Approximation Algorithms.
- Assistant Professor in the Department of CSE at IIIT Guwahati (joined August 2023); former faculty member at BITS Pilani (Pilani campus).
- Ph.D. from the Department of CSE at IIT Guwahati.
- Research Interests: Graph Theory & Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Location Theory, Approximation Algorithms, Data Structures.
- Teaching at IIITG: Algorithms & Algorithms Lab (2023–2026), Approximation Algorithms (Winter 2024–2025), Combinatorial Optimization (Winter 2026).
- Personal Space: sites.google.com/site/mishipawan

DR. AKSHAY PARAKH
Advisor Data Scientist @ AI
Eli Lilly & Co. | Ph.D. (CSE, IIT Guwahati)
Specializing in reasoning models, NLP, and agentic AI pipelines for domain-specific applications and document intelligence.
- Advisor Data Scientist in the Advanced Intelligence (AI) team at Eli Lilly & Co., Bangalore (working full-time since June 2022).
- Ph.D. from IIT Guwahati (2023) focused on NLP, Information Extraction (IE), Deep Learning, and Large-scale Relation Classification.
- Exploring reasoning models, reinforcement learning, and developing agentic computation pipelines for drug discovery and automated first-draft generation.