Invite me to your campus
Talks, workshops, mentoring and hackathon judging
I am Pranjul Rathour, a GenAI Engineer from Kanpur, India, and CTO at SCULT INDIA. I speak at college inductions and fests, run hands-on GenAI workshops, mentor student communities, and judge hackathons with a published rubric and written feedback for every team. Sessions for student communities are free; on-site visits anywhere in India ask only for travel.
5
production AI apps shipped
3×
hackathon first prizes
200+
students mentored
500+
TechVerse Enclave members
Open to
- GenAI / LLM engineering roles (remote, hybrid, Kanpur or Delhi NCR)
- Mentorship sessions and workshops for college tech clubs
- Hackathon judging and mentoring, on-site or remote
- Guest talks and lectures at colleges (IITs, NITs, any campus)
Talk & workshop menu
From college hackathons to production AI
A three-year roadmap — foundations in Year 1, hackathons and internships in Year 2, placements or a startup in Year 3 — built from my own path from a BCA classroom in Kanpur to shipping production AI systems.
What I learned winning three hackathons and losing one
Changethon at IIT Roorkee, Product Genesis at CSJMU, BYTEBATTLE by MeetKats, and STROT, which did not win — the pitch, the demo and the team decisions behind each.
Production RAG that refuses to hallucinate
Hybrid retrieval, reranking, confidence gates and citations, taught from building RAG.NextUpgrad end to end — with a live demo.
Build a RAG app from scratch
Every student leaves with a retrieval app running against their own document, evaluated on a question set they wrote themselves.
Fine-tune a small model on a free GPU
QLoRA end to end on hardware a student actually has, with an honest base-versus-tuned comparison — based on FineTune Studio.
Mentorship session or office hours
Built around students' own projects and decisions rather than a fixed syllabus — the format I run for TechVerse Enclave.
Remote and hybrid delivery available for any of the above. See the full menu, including hackathon judging and mentorship formats, in talks I offer colleges.
Sessions delivered
BCA Induction Seminar — mentor and speaker
6 July 2025Dr. Virendra Swarup Institute of Computer Studies (VSICS), Kanpur
100+ first-year students. A three-year roadmap: foundations and AI tools, then hackathons and internships, then placements or a startup.
AI-powered software development — mentorship session
8 April 2025VSICS Kanpur, under TechVerse Enclave
How AI enters every stage of the software lifecycle, with a showcase of the Changethon-winning project.
INSIGHT — The Talk Show
29 March 2025Computer Application Department, VSICS Kanpur
Debate format on nationalism and government policy; argued the against side.
Competition record
- 1stChangethon 2025 hackathon, National Social Summit — IIT Roorkee
- 1stProduct Genesis, Vividhotsava 2025 — CSJMU Kanpur
- 1stBYTEBATTLE hackathon — MeetKats
- Top 3Hackathon — IIT Kanpur
How to invite me
Write with your dates, audience and format
Tell me the students' year and what they already know, two or three date options, whether it's a talk, workshop, mentorship session or judging panel, and on-site or remote. I reply within a couple of days.
Email is the fastest way to reach me for a campus visit.
Also written as Pranjal Rathour, Pranjul Rathore, Pranjal Rathore, Pranjul Rathor, Pranjal Rathor, Pranjul Rathaur, Pranjul Rathur, Pranjull Rathour.