The Rise of Intelligent Machines: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective from Industry and Impact on Higher Education (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781032745008)

Nadya Shaznay Patel, EdD
Nadya has over twenty years of experience as an educator, researcher and trainer. With a passion for Critical Design Futures (CDFTM) thinking, she regularly facilitates workshops to develop learners' critical competence, design dexterity and futures flexibility for innovation. Committed to bridging the research-practice gap, she engages industry partners in applied research projects, leveraging her expertise in learning and development and interest in GenAI applications. Nadya graduated with a Doctor in Education from University College London in 2015, and a Master's degree in Digital Management from Teesside University in 2024 is a testament to her unwavering commitment to lifelong learning. Her research interests include CDFTM thinking, GenAI in learning and development, transdisciplinarity, and empathetic, dialogic communication. A teacher-researcher at heart, Nadya endeavours to remain at the forefront of transformational pedagogical approaches that leverage emerging technologies and transdisciplinary learning.

Nitin Indurkhya, PhD
Nitin founded Data-Miner Pty. Ltd in 1997 and has been focused on data mining, text mining, language technologies consulting and education since then. In the corporate sector, he led the language technologies group at a Fortune-100 company on Wall Street after establishing the Cloud Research Lab at Samsung Research America. Before that, he was a Principal Research Scientist at eBay in Silicon Valley. He has also been a professor/researcher in various universities and industrial research labs in Australia, Bhutan, Brasil, China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, USA and Vietnam. He has an undergraduate degree from IIT, Kanpur and a Ph.D. from Rutgers University.