AI Solutions Hub

Move from AI ideas to working solutions.

Northeastern helps organizations identify valuable AI opportunities, build and test custom solutions, and prepare them for real-world deployment.

Bring us

  • 01An operational challenge
  • 02A promising use case
  • 03A prototype that needs direction
  • 04A portfolio of AI opportunities

01Prioritized roadmapClear opportunities assessed for value, feasibility, data readiness, and risk.

02Working prototypeA practical solution stakeholders can test with real workflows and data.

03Path to deploymentTechnical direction, responsible AI practices, and knowledge transfer for what comes next.

Choose your starting point

Where does your organization need AI support?

Start with the need that matters most. We shape the technical approach and engagement around your goals, data, constraints, and internal capabilities.

01

Find the right opportunity

Assess business challenges, available data, feasibility, potential value, and risk before committing to a build.

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02

Test a promising idea

Turn a priority use case into a proof of concept or working prototype that stakeholders can evaluate.

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03

Build a custom solution

Design and develop an AI application around your workflows, users, data, security requirements, and technology environment.

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04

Move toward production

Strengthen an existing prototype through engineering, integration, testing, deployment planning, and MLOps.

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What we deliver

AI built around real work.

We combine applied AI, data engineering, software development, and responsible AI practices to create solutions your organization can use and sustain.

01

Knowledge and document intelligence

Extract, classify, summarize, search, and reason across contracts, reports, policies, transcripts, and other unstructured information.

02

Prediction and decision support

Use historical and real-time data to forecast demand, assess risk, prioritize work, and support better operational decisions.

03

Workflow automation

Reduce repetitive work with AI-enabled intake, routing, grading, scheduling, reporting, and human-in-the-loop review.

04

Custom AI applications

Build secure assistants, conversational interfaces, analytical tools, and full-stack applications designed for your organization.

Why Northeastern

Research depth. Practical delivery.

The AI Solutions Hub brings together applied AI professionals, faculty, researchers, graduate students, and co-op talent to help organizations move from complex AI challenges to solutions that can be tested, deployed, and sustained.

01

State-of-the-art expertise

Draw on expertise across generative AI, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, data engineering, and responsible AI.

02

An integrated team of builders

Work collaboratively with experienced AI professionals, researchers, faculty, and emerging technical talent aligned around your organization’s challenge.

03

From research to production

Apply research-backed methods in practical settings, with the engineering, deployment planning, and knowledge transfer needed to move beyond experimentation.

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Applied AI in action

Solutions measured in operational impact.

Representative work across real estate, infrastructure, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, professional services, and the public sector.

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How we work

A clear path from challenge to capability.

You work with one integrated team throughout the engagement, with practical checkpoints and knowledge transfer built into delivery.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Define the challenge, users, desired outcomes, data, constraints, and measures of success.

  2. 02

    Design

    Assess feasibility and create the technical, responsible AI, and delivery approach.

  3. 03

    Build

    Develop and test iteratively with regular input from your team and end users.

  4. 04

    Deploy

    Prepare the solution for your infrastructure, integrations, governance, and security needs.

  5. 05

    Sustain

    Transfer knowledge and equip your team to maintain, use, and extend the work.

Omer Alis, Director of the AI Solutions HubApplied AI leadership

Meet the expert

Omer Alis

Director, AI Solutions Hub

Omer leads a multidisciplinary team of AI experts, data scientists, and data engineers. Working with students, faculty, and researchers, the team helps organizations turn AI strategy, data opportunities, and emerging technologies into practical solutions that can be tested, deployed, and scaled.

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Explore how Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI helps organizations move from experimentation to production with real-world AI solutions that deliver measurable impact.

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Meet Our AI Solutions Hub Team

Omer Alis
Director, AI Solutions Hub

o.alis@northeastern.edu

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Akhil Chitreddy
Data Engineer

a.chitreddy@northeastern.edu

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Esenia (Kseniia) Mavlikhanova
Project Manager

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Ashmit Gupta
Data Scientist

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Jay Vipin Jajoo
Data Scientist

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Pavanchytanya Dharmapuri
Data Scientist

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Shivram Nekkanti
Data Scientist

s.nekkanti@northeastern.edu

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Kahan Dhaneshbhai Sheth
Data Scientist

sheth.kah@northeastern.edu

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Jithin Veeragandham
Data Scientist

veeragandham.j@northeastern.edu

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Reena Sajad Hyder
Data Scientist

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Sean Martin
Business Development Manager

se.martin@northeastern.edu

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Vignesh Ramaswamy Balasundaram
Data Scientist

ramaswamybalasunda.v@northeastern.edu

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