NG
Hey. I'm Nagesh,

A Technology Program
Manager & AI researcher
at Google .

Technology Program Manager at Google, leading generative-AI integrations into Google Search for over a billion daily queries. IEEE Senior Member, SCRS Distinguished Fellow, published researcher in AI ethics and LLM systems — and an active peer reviewer across leading academic publishers.

Technical Program Management · AI Research · Mentor
Email me
Email Google Scholar ORCID LinkedIn GitHub ResearchGate
Nagesh Gulkotwar portrait
Chicago, IL available for talks & collaborations

Published, reviewed & partnered with

hover to pause

01 · Career

Experience

Thirteen years · building · shipping · mentoring
Aug 2021 — Present
Technology Program Manager
Google · Chicago, IL
Lead the Ads Journeys program integrating generative-AI experiences (AI Mode, AI Topics, AI Overviews) into Google Search for more than one billion daily queries.
  • Pioneered ad integration in Google Lens visual search and AI Mode.
  • Built live risk dashboards and capacity-planning models that cut blocker counts 30% and tightened headcount forecasts to ±3 FTE.
  • Created a generative-AI risk-monitoring framework that now gates every new AI monetization feature.
  • Drove adoption of the next-generation Search Ads API, trimming partner-team integration time from six weeks to two.
  • Event Lead for Google's annual Technology Program-Management Summit (2022 & 2023).
Jan 2017 — Jul 2021
Technical Program Manager
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Managed portfolios exceeding $6M annually in Deloitte's Financial-Services practice — leading IT transformation and compliance modernization for Tier-1 clients.
  • Architected a UiPath RPA rollout that automated KYC processes — 92% cycle-time reduction, $4M/yr savings.
  • Directed a $2M customer-data remediation platform with a 10-person agile team.
  • Stood up a PPP loan-forgiveness portal during COVID-19 that processed 70,000 applications daily within eight weeks.
Jul 2013 — Dec 2016
Senior Consultant
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Data-integration lead for an $8B food-supplier merger — unified 400,000 vendor-master records via Levenshtein-based fuzzy-matching. Built SQL Server / SSIS pipelines that improved Basel II operational-risk validation accuracy 30%.
2011 — 2013
Research Assistant · M.S. Studies
University of Illinois Chicago
Built a mobile website for the City of Chicago combining responsive design, GIS overlays, and open-data APIs. Won 1st place at the UIC Tech Symposium.
M.S. — Information Technology & Management
University of Illinois Chicago · 2011–2013
B.S. — Computer Science
University of Mumbai · 2007–2011
02 · Stages

Speaking & Talks

4 Speaking engagements keynotes · talks · chairs
Upcoming keynote · 2026 · Dubai
AICCoNS 2026 — Keynote Speaker
"Trust Calibration and Cognitive Outpacing: Operationalizing Meaningful Human Control in AI-Augmented Program Leadership."
International AI conference
Speaker · Jun 2024
AIM 2024 — AI & Machine Learning Conference
"Impact of AI on the M2P Feedback Loop." Presented to an international AI/ML research audience.
United Scientific Group
Event Lead · 2022 & 2023
Google Technology Program-Management Summit
Planned and hosted Google's annual TPgM Summit. The event playbook is now used to guide future summits organization-wide.
Google · internal flagship
Session Chair · 2026
IJCACI 2026 — 10th Int'l Joint Conf. on Advances in Computational Intelligence
Invited Session Chair for the conference organized by Washington University of Science and Technology.
WUST · USA
03 · Gatekeeping

Peer Review & Editorial

11+ Peer reviews completed 6 more in progress

Active peer reviewer for international journals and conferences across Elsevier, Springer Nature, IEEE, and Manning Publications — evaluating submissions in AI ethics, LLMs, knowledge graphs, computational intelligence, cyber-physical systems, and applied ML.

11+
Completed reviews
6
In-progress assignments
4
Academic publishers
3
Manning technical books
Elsevier · Journal
Information Processing & Management
Peer reviewer for a Special Issue on LLMs & Knowledge Graphs.
Completed · appreciation certificate issued
Springer Nature · In progress
ICT for Global Innovations & Solutions
Editorial reviewer for an international interdisciplinary collection — real-time AI, cyber-physical resilience, regulatory AI, and financial intelligence.
4 papers under review · 2026
Elsevier · Data in Brief
Data in Brief
Reviewer for two dataset manuscripts accepted April 2026.
2 papers in progress
IEEE · Conferences
International IEEE Conferences
Multiple completed reviews at IEEE conferences in computational intelligence and emerging technology education.
4 papers completed · certificates
Manning Publications · Books
Technical Book Reviewer
Reviewed three titles spanning Kubernetes, Microsoft Semantic Kernel, and large-scale problem solving.
3 books completed
Science fair · Judging
Ohio State Academy
Served as judge for the academy science fair.
Completed · certificate
04 · Writing

Research & Publications

5 Publications & preprints 3 citations · ResearchGate

My scholarly work focuses on LLM-augmented recommender systems, trust-based modeling, ethical AI evaluation frameworks, and AI-augmented program leadership. One peer-reviewed publication, three active preprints, and an IEEE conference submission currently under review.

Published · Oct 2025
Ethical Decision-Making in AI Development
IRJET · Vol 12, Issue 10 — peer-reviewed journal
Under Review · Apr 2026
Applied Computational Intelligence for Autonomous Software Testing via DL, RL & Knowledge-Based Reasoning
IEEE 5th World Conf. on Applied Intelligence & Computing · #1658
Preprint
Prompt Bias in Large Language Models
Bias propagation & intersectional fairness in LLM outputs
Preprint
Agentic AI in Financial Services
Autonomous agent architectures for FS applications
Preprint
Privacy-Preserving Human-AI Retail
Collaborative frameworks for human-AI interaction in retail
05 · People

Mentoring & impact

50+ Mentees coached “lift while you climb”

Over the past decade I've mentored 50+ early-career technologists — especially first-generation graduates and international professionals — through résumé clinics, mock interviews, and salary-negotiation coaching. Many have landed TPM, data-engineering, and customer-success roles at FAANG and Big-Four firms. Here's what a few of them have to say.

Nagesh was exceptional in providing career guidance, especially during these tough market conditions. He took time to understand my story and helped extract the necessary highlights for my profile.

He was very thorough in his resume review, pointing out areas that could be improved to attract recruiters' attention immediately.

Neela Sridhar
Program Manager · Google

Nagesh gave unparalleled time commitment and effort to ensure I had the best chance of cracking a FAANG interview.

The learnings from this process not only helped in my job hunt but helped me become a better TPM in my career overall.

Sandeep Garimella
Consulting Senior Mgr · PwC

A huge thank you to Nagesh for your incredible support and mentorship throughout my job search journey. From the very beginning, you took the time to understand my interests and aspirations.

You provided the structure and direction I needed, ultimately helping me land a role at Google.

Hyndavi Renikunta
Software Engineer · Google

Throughout my job search, he dedicated himself to understanding my story and crafting a targeted preparation plan for both technical and non-technical growth.

His in-depth resume reviews and tailored mock interview sessions, complete with real-time, thought-provoking feedback, continuously honed my skills.

Waseem Virk
Construction SME · Outbuild

A heartfelt thank you to Nagesh for your exceptional guidance and mentorship during my job search journey. From the start, he took the time to understand my story.

His thorough resume reviews and insightful feedback attracted recruiters' attention, while the mock interview sessions boosted my confidence.

Vyshnavi Macharla
Customer Success Manager · Workday
A.
Now mentoring on
ADPList · book a free session
Joining ADPList to reach more early-career technologists worldwide. Profile activation in progress.
Coming Soon
05 · Open source

Skills Bazaar

Free to
download! "just grab it"

A growing library of Claude skills I've built for real workflows — from academic publication to inbox hygiene. Each is a packaged, trigger-based skill that turns Claude into a reliable co-pilot for a specific job.

New to skills? Here's how to install one — it takes 30 seconds. ▾ show me
1
Download the skill
See the little dark button in the corner of any skill card below? Click it.
A tiny file (ending in .skill) saves to your Downloads folder. That's it — don't open it, just know where it is.
2
Upload it to Claude
Pick whichever way you use Claude:
  • Open the Claude desktop app on your computer
  • Switch to Cowork mode (bottom-left of the sidebar)
  • Start a new chat and drag the .skill file right into the chat window
  • Claude will show a preview — click the "Save skill" button that appears
Drag → Chat window → Save skill ✓
  • Go to claude.ai in your browser and log in
  • Click Customize (gear icon, bottom-left of sidebar)
  • Click Skills in the menu that opens
  • Click the "+" button, then "Upload skill"
  • Select the .skill file from your Downloads folder
Customize → Skills → + → Upload skill ✓
3
Start using it
Open a new chat with Claude and do one of two things:

Option A: Just talk naturally. Say something like the trigger phrase shown on each card — for example, "find journals for my paper" or "organize my files". Claude will recognize the skill and activate it automatically.

Option B: Type / in the chat. You'll see a list of your installed skills pop up. Pick the one you want and Claude takes it from there.
Smart Journal Pipeline
End-to-end academic publication — recommends target journals, then formats and audits the manuscript for submission.
"where should I publish?"
Journal Finder
Ranks peer-reviewed journals for your manuscript by fit, review speed, and acceptance probability.
"find journals for my paper"
LaTeX Paper Formatter
Converts Word drafts into submission-ready LaTeX with journal-specific templates and an automated QA checklist.
"format my paper for LaTeX"
Fidelity Auditor
Enforces zero-drift content fidelity on any document conversion — every character preserved, never paraphrased.
"audit this conversion"
Action Item Capture
Extracts action items from screenshots, emails, or notes and appends them to your tracker, grouped by date.
"add to action items"
File Organizer
Intelligently organizes files and folders by context — finds duplicates, suggests structures, automates cleanup.
"organize my files"
Gmail Inbox Manager
AI-powered Gmail cleanup — bulk unsubscribe, label, archive, and maintain toward inbox zero.
"clean my inbox"
Invoice Organizer
Automatically reads, renames, and sorts invoices and receipts for tax prep — messy folders, clean output.
"organize invoices"
Restaurant Finder
Personalized restaurant recommendations grounded in your taste profile — not generic review aggregates.
"where should I eat?"

View all skills on GitHub · Have an idea? Drop me a line — I build these for fun.

Let's talk

Start a conversation.

Speaking invitations, peer-review collaborations, mentorship inquiries, or research conversations — click below and Gmail will open with a note already started. I read every message.

Email me
nagesh.gulkotwar@ieee.org Google Scholar ORCID LinkedIn GitHub