About Utpal Sinha

I didn’t begin my career in education. I started with physics — the kind that forces you to slow down and think about how things really work. Both my master’s projects were in computational physics, where I first discovered how code could reveal patterns hidden in nature. It wasn’t called data science then, but that’s what it was — a curiosity about systems and numbers. At IBM, I spent seven years in data warehousing and analytics. Those years taught me how large systems breathe — how decisions travel, how inefficiencies multiply, and how every piece of data tells a small, human story if you’re willing to listen.

After years of working with data and systems, I wanted to work with people. Education had always been a quiet dream, and the Teach For India Fellowship felt like the right way to begin — a space that combined service, learning, and purpose. Those two years in the classroom were among the most demanding and meaningful I’ve known. What began as a fellowship became a lifelong pursuit. I stayed on in education — moving into curriculum and leadership roles across startups and established organizations, leading teams that designed lessons, assessments, and learning frameworks that tried, in their own way, to make education more human. That decade taught me two things: how people learn, and how most of us unlearn that instinct as we grow older.

In 2024, I began another long study — this time, into AI. I spent months learning, building, and rethinking what intelligence means when it’s not human. My background in computation helped, but what truly mattered was the educator in me. The ability to learn independently, to design for understanding, to teach through doing — that became my bridge into AI. Today, I build learning experiences that help people and organizations become AI-native — not by memorizing tools or chasing trends, but by learning to think with AI, to converse with it, and to extend their own abilities through it. I’ve come to believe that AI isn’t here to replace our intelligence; it’s here to remind us of it. My job, and my joy, is to help people rediscover that intelligence — and learn to build their own Iron Man suits, one prompt at a time.