Dr. Ashish Raval is the Founder and Director of AVIADA Agentic AI Solutions Ltd, a UK-based AI ventures studio building agentic workflows and AI-powered SaaS products for the compliance and research sectors. Through AVIADA, he founded VerifyScience, an AI-assisted platform for screening research credibility that performs domain-calibrated analysis, retraction monitoring, and citation-trajectory tracking for students, researchers and reviewers. The capability can also be launched via a Chrome extension for PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv. He brings a background in financial services, having worked as Subject Matter expert and change delivery lead in the Risk division of a major UK bank. He holds double master’s degrees from the University of Leeds and Birkbeck, University of London, and a doctorate from the University of Leeds in Computational Fluid Dynamics. He is based in London, UK.