Vinod Jayakeerthi keeps asking how the system works

An examination is a peculiar ceremony. For an hour or two, a person must demonstrate what they know while an institution tries to establish that the demonstration belongs to them. Put the ceremony online and the room becomes a collection of cameras, connections, permissions and decisions. A question paper turns out to have a surprising amount of plumbing.

Vinod Jayakeerthi has built much of his public working life around that plumbing. He founded ExamRoom.AI with Henry Sorensen, bringing a background in operations and business implementation to a business concerned with remote testing. The company’s remit now reaches across exam creation, delivery, analysis and credentialing. His own interests reach further still.

In March 2024, his name appeared beside Pratapaditya Bej’s on a quantum cryptography preprint. In 2025 and 2026, it appeared among the inventors on assessment technology patent applications. Those documents make an interesting companion to the executive title: here is a founder whose work can also be followed through proposed mechanisms, research questions and the people with whom he builds.

Before the exam, the operating system

Jayakeerthi’s earlier professional biography places operations, project management and business implementation at the centre of his career. At Provlab, his responsibilities covered technical direction, global operations, customer service, expansion and acquisition guidance. That is a broad brief, extending from what a system should do to whether the organisation can afford to do it.

The same biography includes a more revealing detail than the usual list of executive duties: he enjoys automation, process work, data modelling and building AI. Enjoyment is an unusually useful word in a corporate biography. Responsibilities tell you what someone has been assigned; interests offer a clue to what might keep their attention after the meeting ends.

It would be easy to dress these activities in grand language. Their practical attraction is quite plain. A process has steps. Those steps can be inspected, connected and sometimes improved. Read alongside his later assessment inventions, that early description suggests a continuing interest in the workings beneath the interface. This is an interpretation of the work, rather than a claim about a private philosophy.

A detour with a taxi meter

The partnership with Sorensen also took Jayakeerthi into a business where the interface was a ride. OSUM Cabs, founded in Bangalore in 2017, described its starting problem as the design of the taxi aggregation model. Its founders wanted a model that offered drivers better compensation and could remain sustainable for the parties involved.

That ambition is specific. The company’s explanation focused on systems analysis, reengineering, customer service and operations. The vocabulary could have come from a process review; the people affected were drivers and passengers. A business model, after all, eventually arrives at somebody’s doorstep.

The venture provides a useful glimpse of the founders working together outside assessment. It also offers an early example of their stated interest in redesigning how a service operates. Better compensation was the intention OSUM set out. It should be understood as that intention, rather than treated as a measured outcome. The distinction matters in a career story: an aspiration can explain a project without being promoted into an accomplishment.

The exam room grows beyond its walls

ExamRoom.AI began with remote proctoring. The company’s early description paired convenient scheduling with secure testing and respectful customer service. Candidates could choose a testing time, while identity checks and oversight helped administrators protect the exam. It was a service proposition with two audiences: the person taking the test and the organisation responsible for it.

The software also had to work across devices. An iOS app, listed under Jayakeerthi’s name as developer and provider, connected an additional camera with the web portal and computer camera. The arrangement gave proctors another view of the candidate’s surroundings. Even this small product detail conveys the practical character of the business: a remote room has to be made visible somehow.

A communications partnership with Vonage supported video and voice inside the platform. Amanda Jayakeerthi, the company’s chief relations officer, described a service spanning multiple regions and operating systems. Her account included the ability to review flagged moments and communicate with a candidate during a session. Those are company capabilities, and her account of them; they should not be mistaken for quotations from Vinod.

Today, the platform’s published scope extends to item banks, form building, test sites, psychometrics and credentials. For its founder, the business has become a place where many parts of an examination meet.

His name is on the mechanism

The patent applications give that broader scope some texture. A filing published in January 2026 names Vinod Kumar Jayakeerthi, Parshant Kumar and Ravichandra Panchaksharam as inventors of a method for automatically generating assessment items. It describes using AI and machine learning to produce questions, with subject experts reviewing generated material before it enters an item bank.

A related application published in April 2026 adds Deepak Madhukar Kolekar to the inventor group and addresses dynamic generation. The proposed system works with content and specified requirements, organises generated items and provides for vetting. These are applications describing proposed inventions. Their publication does not establish that a patent has been granted or that every described capability has been deployed.

Another application, published in November 2025, concerns adaptive testing with continuous real time scoring. Jayakeerthi’s fellow inventors include Philip Duwayne Dickison, Sorensen, Bharath Virupakshappa Sagar and Kolekar. Here the question is how performance should be assessed as an examination proceeds. The interest moves from supervising a test to deciding how the test itself should respond.

Taken together, the filings show a founder participating in work on question creation and assessment logic alongside several collaborators. They also supply a useful correction to the solitary inventor portrait. Multiple names appear because multiple people contributed. Even an exam question has a supporting cast.

Then Alice and Bob enter the room

The quantum paper is the unexpected turn. Jayakeerthi and Bej coauthored “A Secure Quantum Key Distribution Protocol Using Two-Particle Transmission,” first posted to arXiv on 20 March 2024. Both were affiliated with ExamRoom.AI in the original version. The topic concerns the exchange of cryptographic keys through quantum communication.

The paper proposes transmitting parts of a quantum state in sequence and examines possible eavesdropping attacks. Its analysis assumes noiseless quantum channels. That assumption belongs in the account because it defines the setting of the proposed protocol. This is theoretical research, rather than evidence that ExamRoom.AI has installed a quantum communications system.

For a profile of Jayakeerthi, the coauthorship matters more than an excursion through the mathematics. It establishes a documented research interest beyond the immediate business of watching an online examination. There is a thematic connection with secure assessment: both involve questions about what another party can know or observe. The connection is an editorial reading, not a declaration by the author. The documented fact is the collaboration itself.

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A chairman among colleagues

Jayakeerthi’s public identity has also changed with the organisation. Early profiles describe him as founder and CEO. More recent material identifies him as chairman and president; Florida’s corporate record lists him as chairman. Those titles place the story in a later chapter of the business than the familiar founder and CEO description suggests.

One glimpse of his working manner comes from Xinhui Maggie Xiong’s reflection on joining ExamRoom.AI during 2025. She described him working alongside colleagues on successive problems and wrote that, during urgent moments, “his calm presence reassures and unites the team.” It is a colleague’s appreciative assessment, offering a particular view of how he behaves at work.

The connection also appears in a different setting. The programme for the October 2025 Artificial Intelligence in Measurement and Education conference lists Xiong, Adarsh Dikhit, Deepak MK and Jayakeerthi on work titled “Scalable and Explainable AI with SQL-Augmented Retrieval.” Research collaboration and day to day problem solving meet in the same group of names.

Elsewhere, employees have publicly thanked Jayakeerthi for opportunities to take on greater responsibility. Those accounts cannot describe an entire organisation, but they do identify people and relationships around the founder. A career becomes easier to understand when the colleagues come into focus.

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His calm presence reassures and unites the team.

Xinhui Maggie Xiong
Reflecting on her year at ExamRoom.AI, December 2025

More than one kind of engineering problem

His interests now extend into another organisation. Gyroscope.one identifies Jayakeerthi as its founder and chairman, with responsibility for vision and strategy. The company describes work across mobility, aerospace and energy. It lists Mohana Kumara ML as CEO, another reason to attend carefully to the difference between founding a business and holding its chief executive role.

That additional venture widens the picture without resolving it into a tidy slogan. Assessment software, a taxi business, a cryptography paper and emerging technology projects are different undertakings. Their outcomes must be judged separately. The recurring subject is the design of a system: how its components interact, who uses it and where a process needs another look.

The next chapter at ExamRoom.AI already has a public marker. Its website announces an intention to go open source and invites people to a waiting list. That is a stated direction, with the details of release and adoption still to follow. For someone whose biography singles out automation and modelling as interests, opening software would create another setting in which others could examine the machinery.

An exam ends with an answer. Jayakeerthi’s working record is more interesting for the questions it keeps producing: how to generate an item, assess a performance, exchange a key or organise a service. His documented interests in automation and modelling give those projects a point of connection. There is always another part to inspect, another question to put to the system.