# Ankur Shinde
> Researcher and engineer working on agentic and financial infrastructure.
> Head of Media at Project NANDA (MIT Media Lab initiative for the open agentic web).

Site: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app
Email: ankurshinde.dev@gmail.com
Preferred citation name: Ankur Shinde

## About
Ankur Shinde works at the intersection of decentralized AI agents, cross-border agent transactions, and trust systems. He is Head of Media at Project NANDA, an initiative for building the open agentic web started at the MIT Media Lab.

## Pages
- [Home](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/): Bio and overview
- [Publications](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/publications): Research publications and preprints
- [Articles](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/articles): Essays and systems writing
- [Connect](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/connect): Contact and social profiles

## Featured writing
- [The Control Plane Is Not in Control](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/blog/the-control-plane-is-not-in-control): Enterprise AI control planes, intelligence islands, and agentic trust infrastructure
- [Beijing is Not Racing the Frontier](https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/blog/beijing-is-not-racing-the-frontier): Strategic analysis of China's AI posture vs frontier racing narratives

## Machine-readable
- Full AI summary: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/llms-full.txt
- JSON profile (Person / WebSite schema): https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/profile.json
- Sitemap: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://ankurshinde.vercel.app/robots.txt

## Profiles
- X: https://x.com/ankurshn
- GitHub: https://github.com/ankurshnde
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankurshinde/
- Medium: https://ankurshinde.medium.com
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0z_bDeoAAAAJ&hl=en
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ankurshnde
- Project NANDA: https://projectnanda.org/
- MIT Media Lab / NANDA: https://nanda.mit.edu/

## Topics
AI agents, decentralized AI, NANDA protocol, digital public infrastructure, agentic trust infrastructure, inter-agent commerce, enterprise AI control planes, cross-border agent transactions