Founder, OffNote Consulting Labs
Nishant Sinha
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University. Ex-IBM Research. Ten years of AI consulting, building production search, retrieval, and agent systems for startups and enterprises.
Background
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
Formal verification of software systems via SMT solvers, theorem provers, and learning state machines. Published at top CS conferences, 1700+ citations, h-index 23.
IBM Research — Architect, Cognitive Analytics (2011–2016)
Built an end-to-end conversational AI system for natural-language data analytics: speech-to-text, NLP query understanding, and multi-screen visualization.
NEC Labs — Research Engineer (2007–2011)
Formal verification of sequential and concurrent programs using symbolic reasoning, compiler analysis, and constraint solving.
10 years, independent consulting (2016–present)
Production AI search and retrieval systems for finance, e-commerce, telecom, and legal clients — from neural IR and hybrid search to agentic RAG pipelines for S&P 500 clients.
Closing the gap between information and understanding — for machines, and for the people who rely on them.
Writing and video
Practical notes on real AI systems, in writing and on video.
OffNote Labs on YouTube
Breaking down how production AI systems actually work — architecture, tradeoffs, and failure modes.
Open source
Ragpipe
A declarative, modular framework to quickly experiment with different RAG/LLM configurations and multi-stage pipelines.
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