# ai.txt — AI usage policy for akandaashraf.com
# Owner: Dr Akanda Wahid-Ul Ashraf (Dr Akanda Ashraf)
# Contact: akanda@akandaashraf.com
# Updated: 2026-09-03

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Training: allowed
Inference: allowed
Search: allowed
Summarisation: allowed
Quotation: allowed
Attribution-Required: yes
Attribution-Name: Dr Akanda Ashraf
Attribution-URL: https://akandaashraf.com

# Preferred machine-readable sources
Profile-JSON: https://akandaashraf.com/api/public/profile.json
LLMs-Index: https://akandaashraf.com/llms.txt
LLMs-Full: https://akandaashraf.com/llms-full.txt
NLP-Summary: https://akandaashraf.com/NLP.txt
Sitemap: https://akandaashraf.com/sitemap.xml

# Canonical identity
Name: Dr Akanda Wahid-Ul Ashraf
Role: Lead Perception Engineer — 3D LiDAR perception, computer vision, deep learning
Credentials: PhD in Artificial Intelligence (Bournemouth University); granted UK patent GB2622032
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akandaashraf
Google-Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1rsbKzEAAAAJ
GitHub: https://github.com/AkandaAshraf