Alumni Series #3

At Sea, 2006

Dr. Mohit Sewak, Ph.D.'s story doesn’t begin in a lab or a boardroom, it starts on the quarterdeck of a naval ship, where precision, discipline, and command were more than virtues; they were survival. Outside those hours, he was training for national kick-boxing events, where he learned that controlled repression can sometimes be more effective than unaltered strength. An entrepreneurial stint followed; within two years he steered a start-up to breakeven, gaining practical insight into cash flow discipline and market timing.

He joined the PGPM programme at Great Lakes Institute of Management Lakes in 2009 for a broader picture rather than a different direction. Classroom discussion demanded that no mathematical conclusion stand alone, separate from human impact. Double majoring in Finance and Marketing provided him with dual lens: numbers show performance while narrative explains momentum. Graduating as the best of his class had only confirmed something he'd long suspected and had the evidence of countless shipboard drills and sparring rounds to back up: put everything in order and then go hot with it.

Official jobs came forward in regular order. At IBM he worked on cognitive-commerce systems that marry machine reasoning with retail demand. Microsoft hired him to expose security flaws in nascent artificial-intelligence tools, focusing on defence rather than deployment. NVIDIA contracted him to work with national policymakers on generative AI, where technical granularity meets public accountability. He is currently working at Google as part of the Model Armor team, which focuses on testing and protecting large language models, ensuring innovation progresses without threatening societal trust.

His list of achievements encompasses fourteen US patents and over thirty publications, all focused on the core challenge: how to enhance capability while maintaining security. He has one piece of advice for students and contemporaries: Stringent inquiry must be coupled with moral vision; technology is valuable only as long as the human beings it touches are safe guarded.