EngineerOutstanding Researcher 2 US PatentsRice EMBA '27
Ex-IntelEx-Accenture Ex-Johns HopkinsEx-NIH

A lot gets built. Little gets used.
I work on the difference.

Building things that actually get used - for growing companies, complex industries, and problems that are genuinely worth solving.

The Problem
Most organizations have the data. Few have systems that use it.

I build the bridge between what you have and what you need.

The Approach
Not a framework delivered from a distance.

Someone who has lived the problem, not just studied it.

The difference between knowing and having done.
14+
Years post-academia at the intersection of AI and industry
2
US Patents in AI and predictive analytics
Top 1%
Granted US permanent residency as a person of extraordinary ability
50+
AI projects delivered across a career
Two decades in

A long runway of building things that get used.

Close to two decades across academia, industry, and startups: Intel, Accenture, C3 AI, Johns Hopkins, the NIH, and KU Medical Center. Enterprise AI implementations, cognitive computing platforms, pharmacovigilance systems, predictive analytics in financial services and insurance, clinical decision support, and revenue-cycle intelligence. The experience behind it is what makes the work worth trusting.

Applied AI · capabilities & sectors
PersonalizationRecommender SystemsAnomaly DetectionPredictive AnalyticsNLPHealthcareFinancial ServicesInsuranceEnergyManufacturing
Selected Work

What I'm building now.

The projects below are current, where that experience goes to work.

Live · Contracted
Compliance · Digital Transformation

Regulated Compliance Portal

A regulated compliance operation, fully digitized. What used to live in paper and spreadsheets now runs as a customer-facing system. Live and in use.

Live · Loved
Productivity · Right Tool, Right Problem

Rice EMBA Tools

The course registration materials were genuinely confusing. Built a planner. Nobody asked. The cohort used it. Then built a class-wide dashboard for 40 students to coordinate electives and form study groups. One holdout out of 41. Neither needed AI. Both needed someone who picked the right tool for the right problem.

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On Hold · Active Exploration
Healthcare · Clinical Systems

Transplant Intelligence & Triage

Exploring the modernization of organ transplant coordination. The obstacles aren't technical. They're organizational and institutional. There is genuine interest in the community to understand what's possible. That's where the exploration begins.

Live · Try It
AI · Conversational Agent

NINA: AI Readiness Agent

99th Centile Intelligence and Navigation Advisor (NINA) - A conversational AI readiness agent built for this site. Not a quiz. Not a form. A structured conversation that surfaces where an organization actually stands on AI and where the gaps are. Designed with enterprise readiness, governance, and data privacy built in from the start.

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A personal aside

Some things get built simply because they need to exist.

A journaling app for parents of premature infants in the NICU, personal and still unfinished. Because not everything worth building has a business model yet.

Services

Where I can be useful.

I work with organizations that have operational complexity, data they can't yet use, or an AI decision they need to get right.

Operational & Data Transformation

Making complexity legible. Paper processes, fragmented systems, data that exists but isn't useful, turned into systems people actually use.

Process DigitizationData SystemsDefined DeliverablesSector Agnostic
AI Integration & Automation

Right tool, right problem. Agents, automation, and LLM integration that removes the right friction from the right workflows, not AI for its own sake.

LLM IntegrationCustom AgentsIntelligent AutomationWorkflow Intelligence
Workshops & Training

Structured engagements for organizations that need to understand the landscape before they can navigate it. Discovery workshops, AI literacy training, and leadership sessions for corporate, academic, and industry audiences.

Discovery WorkshopsAI LiteracyLeadershipAcademiaCorporate
Technical Advisory

Retainer, project-based, and fractional support. For organizations navigating AI and digital transformation, including governance and responsible implementation. Someone who has built things, not just advised on them.

RetainerFractionalAI GovernanceStrategyHouston & Remote
How I think about AI

AI doesn't have to be expensive. It needs to be thoughtful.

And sometimes it isn't even appropriate to use AI for the scenario at all. Knowing when not to reach for it is part of the job.

About

A little about me.

I've spent close to two decades at the intersection of academia, industry, and enterprise, starting in research labs at KU Medical Center, Johns Hopkins, and the NIH, then moving into technical and strategic roles at Intel, Accenture, and C3 AI. At Intel I was part of the original team that launched Optane Persistent Memory, the world's first persistent memory product, and spent years at the Saffron AI group working on cognitive computing and associative memory. Fourteen of those years have been in the practice of AI, predictive analytics, pattern detection, and the harder work of getting organizations to actually use what gets built.

I've worked inside Fortune 500s and academic medical centers. I've sat across from CTOs figuring out where to start and operations teams buried in process debt. Some AI implementations transform how organizations work. Others get delivered, celebrated, and never opened again. The difference is rarely the technology. It's almost always the problem definition, and whether anyone understood what actually needed to change.

That pattern is what I work on now. Through 99th Centile Solutions I work with organizations navigating AI adoption, operational complexity, and the gap between what's technically possible and what actually gets used. Two patents, a decade of enterprise AI experience, and enough failed implementations observed up close to know what separates the ones that land from the ones that don't.

I'm finishing my EMBA at Rice to embed myself in the Houston ecosystem and build the kind of relationships that serious work is built on.

Based in Houston. Working with organizations that have real problems and no patience for solutions that don't survive contact with the real world.

Amith Harsha with his yellow and chocolate Labradors
99th Centile Solutions Labs · Ready for an adventure any time

The chocolate & cream palette is a quiet tribute to my two Labs, Trooper the chocolate and Ginger the yellow.

Resources

Tools & thinking.

Built to be useful before we ever talk.

AI Readiness Agent · Live
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NINA, the 99th Centile Intelligence and Navigation Advisor. Enterprise-ready, governance-aware, and built to surface where your organization actually stands on AI. Not where you hope it does.

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Article
Why most AI implementations fail before they start

It's almost never the technology. What actually goes wrong, and what to do about it before you're too far in to course-correct.

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Article
The difference between AI readiness and hype

What readiness actually looks like versus what organizations think it looks like. The gap between buying a tool and being ready to use it.

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NINA is our AI readiness agent. Enterprise-ready, governance-aware, and built to surface where your organization actually stands on AI. Not where you hope it does.

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