A Schoolboy’s Lecture Surprises The Audience on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

When the audience sat for a session during the Tech Talk series held at the Department of AI and DS, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, little did they expect a child prodigy on the stage.

Arnav Sivaram, a 9th-grade student, CS Academy, kept the audience spell-bound with his talk on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

The Association AI and DS organized a tech talk series held at Coimbatore Institute of Technology on 23rd June 2022. In the series, Arnav’s lecture stole the limelight.

For those who knew him, this might not have come as a surprise. While children of his age play with electronic gadgets, Arnav’s passion goes much deeper.

Arnav is a computer wizard. He holds diplomas in C, C++, Web Development, Python, Java, HTML, CSS, C#, Objective-C, JavaScript, Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, Bootstrap and R.

He is also the recipient of several awards conferred on him at college-level events, which include, Paper presentations, Project Presentations, and Code Debugging events held at JCT College, Karpagam College and Kongunadu College.

Arnav worked as an Intern at AIC Rise at the age of 13, and delivered guest lectures at Google TensorFlow and Start-up Culture.  Arnav, a technical trainer, gave the training in PHP.  Arnav, with a dream to start a product development company of his own, has applied for patents for two algorithms.