{"id":979268,"date":"2025-12-09T12:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979268"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T06:51:38","slug":"indian-origin-ex-meta-executive-shares-tips-for-building-career-in-ai-dont-assume-you-need-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/indian-origin-ex-meta-executive-shares-tips-for-building-career-in-ai-dont-assume-you-need-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin ex-Meta executive shares tips for building career in AI: &#8216;Don&#8217;t assume you need PhD&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin artificial intelligence expert who spent over 15 years in research, academia and big tech has shared practical lessons for young professionals hoping to build a career in AI.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Business Insider, Devi Parikh, a former senior director of generative AI at Meta and the co-CEO of an AI startup, stressed that a PhD is no longer a prerequisite for cutting-edge work in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin artificial intelligence expert who spent over 15 years in research, academia and big tech has shared practical lessons for young professionals hoping to build a career in AI. In an interview with Business Insider, Devi Parikh, a former senior director of generative AI at Meta and the co-CEO of an AI startup, stressed that a PhD is no longer a prerequisite for cutting-edge work in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}