Hi, I'm Ryan Rad

Professor, AI Researcher, Industry Advisor, and Author of The Agentic AI Book.

Generative AI Multi-Agent Systems LLMs / VLMs Machine Learning Computer Vision

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Dr. Ryan Rad is an AI researcher, professor, and industry advisor with nearly two decades of experience shaping how artificial intelligence is built, taught, and deployed. He holds faculty positions at Northeastern University and the University of British Columbia, where he has designed curricula and graduate programs in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Generative AI, and Data Science—reaching thousands of students across six universities and online.

His industry work spans research, engineering, and leadership at startups and tech giants including Microsoft, scaling AI solutions across 40 countries for Fortune 500 companies. A sought-after speaker with 50+ international talks and tens of top-tier peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Rad's research focuses on resource-efficient generative AI for edge deployment and sustainable AI solutions.

He is the author of The Agentic AI Book—distilling years of building, teaching, and deploying autonomous systems into actionable insights for production-ready multi-agent architectures—and shares AI perspectives on his YouTube channel.

18+

Years in AI

35+

Research Papers

1000+

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Companies Advised

50+

International Talks

2,500+

Students Taught

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Helping leadership teams and developers bridge state-of-the-art research with production execution.

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