Valliappa Lakshmanan

Bio

Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan is co-founder and CTO of Obin.ai which builds AI agents for finance. Previously, he was an Operating Executive at a private equity firm, Director for Data Analytics and AI Solutions on Google Cloud, and a Research Scientist at NOAA. He co-founded Google's Advanced Solutions Lab and is the author of several O'Reilly books and Coursera courses. He was elected a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (the highest honor offered by the AMS) for pioneering machine learning algorithms in severe weather prediction.