Ishan Pakuwal is a guest lecturer based in Seattle available for online guest lectures and in-person guest lectures at universities. Introductions are free through OpenLecture.
Guest lecture topics
- AI Systems Engineering
- Applied Machine Learning in Production
- Alignment Methods (RLHF / DPO)
- Evaluation Frameworks for LLMs
- Human-AI Systems
- AI Reliability
- AI Infrastructure
- Inference Optimization
- AI for Enterprise Systems
- Claude code workflow
- LLM Deployment
- Systems Thinking
- Distributed systems
Teaching experience
- 2026
Guest Lecturer — Kennesaw State University
“10x productivity with AI tools”
More about my teaching
10x productivity with AI tools @Kennesaw State University (Feb 2026)
Interests & speaking style
Interest: I’m interested in guest lecturing because I value the academic environment and enjoy engaging with students who are developing foundational ways of thinking and could potentially shape the future we live in.. Lecturing style: I deliver highly practical, real-world grounded lectures that connect theory to production-scale engineering. I use case studies from live distributed systems and AI deployments to illustrate how concepts behave in real world.
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