Sashikumar Ganesan, professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bengaluru, his journey into AI research wasn’t as straightforward. Trained in computational mathematics for about two decades, Ganesan’s entry into AI research happened in 2020—during the Covid-19 outbreak—when he was roped in, along with few colleagues, into building a model to predict the pandemic’s trajectory. “I was a core computational mathematics person. But since Covid, I have gone into Python, and machine learning neural networks. I want to bring this into science…