Koushik Deb is an AI Engineer and Tech Lead at Accenture, where he builds generative-AI and agentic-AI systems for healthcare clients, and a former Assistant Professor at the Institute of Engineering & Management, Kolkata. He is a PhD candidate at IIIT Kalyani researching bias in multilingual large language models across English, Hindi and Bengali, and the author of Keep It Simple: AI for Teachers.
Talk and workshop topics
AI for teachers. A hands-on session built around the ten-minute version: pick one low-risk task tonight, not a whole new system. Participants work through Draft, Check, Decide. The tool drafts, you check it against your knowledge of students and standards, you decide what reaches the classroom.
Practical AI for schools. How to choose and combine three kinds of tools without turning the workday into a tech project: a general assistant such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Microsoft Copilot; a document-grounded tool such as NotebookLM; and a teacher-specific tool such as MagicSchool or Brisk. Tools and their settings change, so the session focuses on habits that outlast any one product.
Responsible AI and data. Plain rules for what to paste and what to keep out. Green for generic planning and public information, yellow for anonymized student work that needs approval first, red for anything that does not go into a tool the school has not approved. School policy always comes first.
Multilingual AI and bias. A proposed session drawing on his research on bias in multilingual large language models across English, Hindi and Bengali. What bias can look like in classroom materials, how to spot it, and how to adjust prompts and outputs.
Applied GenAI for professionals. The five things AI can actually help with, draft, understand, adapt, create, organize, applied to administrative work, training design, and team coordination. An illustrative exercise features Denise Carter, the front-office character from the book, drafting messages home.
Formats and audiences
Available formats include staff training, faculty sessions, conference talks, webinars, podcast conversations, and guest lectures. Sessions are designed for school staff, faculty, school leaders, and professional teams, and the length and shape can be discussed when arranging an invitation.
In a workshop, participants could work through the seven ingredients of a prompt, context, goal, constraints, examples, output shape, review, and iteration, using a real task from their own week. One proposed exercise: take a handout drafted by a general assistant and check it line by line against the source document it was meant to summarize. When a group finds a claim the source does not support, they mark it, decide whether to fix the prompt or rewrite the line themselves, and keep the rejected version as a reference for the next draft.
Koushik is based in Kolkata, India, and is available for in-person invitations from Kolkata or for online sessions. Before any session, participants should check their school’s policy on what may be entered into a tool.
To invite him to speak or run a workshop, email koushikdeb88@gmail.com with your proposed date, audience, and format.