Jayaraman Varatharajan is a Technical Assistant in Artificial Intelligence & Robotics at SASTRA Deemed University, India, where he supports AI, machine learning, robotics and IoT laboratories and faculty-led research. He leads a student team building an affordable assistive mobility robot for the elderly. Before moving into AI and robotics, he spent over ten years as an Oracle EPM Techno-Functional Consultant across banking, insurance, retail, manufacturing, mining and energy in India, the UK and the Middle East. This included over five years at Ma’aden, one of the largest mining and metals companies in the Middle East, supporting its enterprise planning, reporting and ERP-integrated systems. He is an Oracle Certified EPM Consultant with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from SASTRA. His work connects the enterprise data backbone of mining companies with practical, hardware-tested AI and automation.