The Workshop was incredible! Arthi is an incredible mentor who explains complex concepts in a way that's easy to understand. I learned so much about AI agents and how to build them from scratch.
Vagvedi Kinikar
CSE Student, SRM
Workshop
About Arthi Rajendran
Arthi Rajendran is an AI educator, speaker, and one-on-one AI mentor. She spent over a decade building AI products in industry (at AstraZeneca, then Pfizer, then Zoho), working on recommendation engines, fraud detection systems, NLP pipelines, and computer vision applications, before turning to the problem she cared about most: explaining this work to people who don't have a PhD in machine learning.
That pharmaceutical and enterprise background is why her teaching leans practical and regulated-industry aware. She has been the person who had to make AI work inside real constraints: messy data, compliance requirements, and stakeholders who needed the output explained in plain language.
She founded The Arthi AI Collective as a place where AI gets translated, tested, and applied, not another course platform. Her teaching focuses on people without machine learning backgrounds: healthcare workers, marketers, analysts, operations teams, students, and career switchers who need AI to be useful on Monday morning, not theoretically interesting.
Today she runs 1:1 AI mentorship programs across five tracks, hosts The AI Sisterhood Podcast, publishes a daily AI news brief and a plain-English AI glossary, and speaks at universities and companies worldwide, including a capstone session at Harvard University, where she taught PhD students how to implement LLMs and applied AI techniques. She was ranked #13 among India's Top 200 Women Creators in AI Education.
Career
Before teaching full-time, Arthi spent over a decade building AI and data products in industry:
- AstraZeneca: Pharmaceutical and biotech: data science and AI.
- Pfizer: Pharmaceutical: data science and AI.
- Zoho: Software product company: AI and machine learning.
She now runs The Arthi AI Collective full-time.
Credentials
- Ranked #13, India's Top 200 Women Creators in AI Education: Recognised in 2026 for plain-English AI education work.
- 10,000+ people taught: Across live workshops, university sessions, and 1:1 mentorship.
- 50+ speaking engagements: Including the NLP Summit (John Snow Labs), Harvard University's capstone meeting, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, LIBA, M2P Fintech, HappyFox, and SRM Institute of Science and Technology.
- 10+ years building AI products at AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Zoho: Recommendation engines, fraud detection systems, NLP pipelines, and computer vision applications.
- Taught PhD students at Harvard University: Invited capstone speaker on implementing LLMs and applied AI techniques.
- Healthcare and clinical research AI specialism: Speaker at the ISCR Annual Conference, PHUSE India, CONSPIC by IASCT, and SRM School of Public Health.
Where Arthi has spoken
- NLP Summit 2024: John Snow Labs
- Harvard University: Capstone Meeting (taught PhD students on implementing LLMs)
- Manipal Academy of Higher Education
- Loyola Institute of Business Administration (LIBA)
- M2P Fintech: Chennai Data Circle
- HappyFox: SheBuilds Workshop
- AAAI SRMIST Trichy
- SRM School of Public Health
- Loyola College
- ISCR Annual Conference
- PHUSE India Winter Event
- CONSPIC by IASCT
Arthi also runs corporate AI training for teams and organizations, delivered in India and online.
What Arthi teaches
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Education
- AI Mentorship
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models
- Prompt Engineering
- AI Agents
- Agentic AI
- Workflow Automation
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- AI for Non-Technical Professionals
- AI Career Transitions
Work with Arthi
- AI Launchpad for Students: 1:1 AI mentorship for college students. Build portfolio-ready AI projects, master the modern AI stack, and stand out in placements. 4, 8, or 12-week packages. From ₹8,999.
- AI Edge for Working Professionals: 1:1 AI mentorship for working professionals. Build automations for your real job, save hours every week, and lead AI adoption on your team. Flexible 4, 8 or 12 week packages. From ₹14,999.
- AI From Zero: 1:1 beginner-friendly AI mentorship. No jargon, no prerequisites: get comfortable with AI tools, learn prompting, and build your first mini-project. ₹29,000/month. From ₹29,000.
- AI Career Switch: 1:1 mentorship for job seekers and career switchers. Build AI skills and proof-of-work projects, fix your resume and LinkedIn, and run an AI-powered job search. 4, 8 or 12 weeks. From ₹16,999.
- AI Business Automation Program: 1:1 AI mentorship for founders and business owners. Map, build, and connect real automations across sales, marketing, and operations in your own business. Timeline: 8, 12 or 16 weeks. From ₹79,992.
Video stories
- AI Residency at Jungli: Geetika Chauhan, Community Manager at Jungli the Nomad Village, Dandeli.
- My AI Residency Experience: Meher Biyani, age 10. AI Residency. Meher, 10, built an app for gymnasts during the AI Residency. She valued that Arthi answered her questions immediately and taught her enough to keep building at home, and she discovered how many AI tools exist beyond ChatGPT and Gemini.
- From AI doubt to curiosity: Priyanka Biyani, Drama Teacher, Netherlands. AI Residency (5 days). Priyanka arrived at the five-day AI Residency with what she calls "nil" and even "negative" interest in AI. She credits Arthi with tailoring tools and terminology to each person's level, and left keen to open her laptop and try things on her own.
- A heartfelt thank you: Ankit's story: Ankit, Mentee. AI Residency. Ankit, a self-described AI "power user" who had fallen behind, joined the 5-day intensive with three things to build for work and personal use. Arthi asked for his goals before day one and planned around them, and he left with all three built and live on the web.
- From uncertainty to using AI with confidence: Divya More, Creative Director. AI Residency. Divya, a creative director and pitch deck designer in advertising and film, was unsure how to automate her work before a three-day course with Arthi. She describes a course designed around her needs and calls Arthi her likely "AI coach forever".
What mentees, students, and audiences say
I am a healthcare professional with no knowledge about AI. I was always scared to explore in AI because it is always portrayed as a huge thing. A one on one session with Arthi is an eye opening for me which is useful and gave hope that even a person with zero knowledge about AI can start.
Yogalakshmi R
Healthcare Professional
1:1 mentorship
1:1 session, 1:1 mentorship
Your advice came at the perfect time. I was confused and stressed, but you helped me see everything clearly and feel hopeful again. Thank you for being so supportive and positive, it honestly made a big difference.
Harini Shankar
Mentee
AI Agents workshop
1:1 session, 1:1 mentorship
What impressed me most was Arthi's dedication to making it accessible. As an engineer from a different domain, I could follow everything and apply it to my own projects.
Ramalingam J
Robotics & Automation Engineer
Workshop
Arthi is an amazing tutor! Very patient and knowledgeable. Simplified a lot of things for me. She's a very warm and friendly person, highly recommend to anyone wanting to learn AI skills.
Anand Vikamshi
GM
AI Learning Residency
Residency feedback
The session was well-structured and super informative. Arthi broke down complex topics into digestible pieces. I left feeling confident about exploring AI further.
Sneha Kannan
Mentee
AI Agents workshop
1:1 session
Find Arthi elsewhere
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthirajendran/
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thearthiaicollective
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearthiaicollective/
- medium: https://medium.com/@arthirajendran
- substack: https://thearthiaicollective.substack.com/
- gumroad: https://thearthiaicollective.gumroad.com/
- github: https://github.com/arthi-rajendran24
- discord: https://discord.gg/NHRW4yNRc6