PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Hemanth Kumar Tanneru

Hemanth Kumar Tanneru is a chemical engineer whose AI work spans reinforcement-learning forecasting and machine-learning-guided drug discovery. He earned a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering in 2010 and a Ph.D. at IIT Madras in 2017, with a thesis on micro-photosynthetic power cells. His research ranges from micro-photosynthetic power-cell modeling and low-power energy studies to reinforcement-learning forecasts and machine-learning work on mutant IDH1 inhibitors. He has been an Associate Professor in IIPE's Department of Chemical Engineering since March 2024 and is an Associate Research Fellow at IIT Madras's Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence as of October 2026.

Now at
IIT Madras and Indian Institute of Petroleum and Energy

Timeline

  1. 2010

    A B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering

    He earns a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering at Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering in 2010.

  2. July 2011–July 2016

    Teaching at IIT Madras

    From July 2011 to July 2016, he serves as a half-time Teaching Assistant at IIT Madras.

  3. 2016–2017

    A Ph.D. and power-cell model

    In 2016, he coauthors a first-principles model that predicts the performance of a micro-photosynthetic power cell. He completes a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras in 2017 with a thesis on modeling and performance enhancement of micro-photosynthetic power cells.

  4. April 2018–April 2019

    Postdoctoral fellow at Concordia

    From April 2018 to April 2019, he works as a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University.

  5. 2019–2024

    Power cells and IIPE professorship

    In April 2019, he coauthors a study comparing micro-photosynthetic power cells with photovoltaic cells for low-power applications such as mobile-phone charging and humidity sensing. In July 2019, he becomes an Assistant Professor in IIPE's Department of Chemical Engineering and serves in that role through March 2024.

  6. 2020

    Reinforcement learning for forecasts

    In 2020, he coauthors an arXiv preprint that uses reinforcement learning to update ensemble-model weights online as time-series data change and reduce forecast errors.

  7. 2025

    Machine learning for IDH1 inhibitors

    In 2025, he collaborates on a machine-learning-guided study of small-molecule inhibitors targeting mutant IDH1.

  8. As of October 2026

    Associate Research Fellow at RBCDSAI

    In March 2024, he becomes an Associate Professor in IIPE's Department of Chemical Engineering. As of October 2026, he is also an Associate Research Fellow at IIT Madras's Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Career

  1. Since 2019Indian Institute of Petroleum and EnergyAssistant Professor, Associate Professor
  2. Since 2011IIT MadrasTeaching Assistant
  3. 2018–2019Concordia UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow

Education

  1. 2017IIT MadrasPh.D.
  2. 2010Sri Venkateswara University College of EngineeringB.Tech.

From the biography.

  1. The United States employs an estimated 48% of people shaping AIIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI work today, how universities, companies and research institutes split across countries, and how country shares have changed since the 1960s.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes IIT Madras. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes IIT Madras. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Hemanth Kumar Tanneru | Indian Institute of Petroleum & Energy iipe.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Integrated bio-electrochemical model for a micro photosynthetic power cell arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Feasibility Studies of Micro Photosynthetic Power Cells as a Competitor of Photovoltaic Cells for Low and Ultra-Low Power IoT Applications ideas.repec.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. Reinforcement Learning based dynamic weighing of Ensemble Models for Time Series Forecasting arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Roy's Lab 🔬 - News sites.google.com. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Hemanth Kumar Tanneru | Wadhwani School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence wsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Hemanth Kumar Tanneru | Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence rbcdsai.iitm.ac.in. Checked 21 October 2026.