Valliappa Lakshmanan

Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan works closely with management teams across a range of enterprises to help them employ data and AI-driven innovation to grow their businesses. Previously, he was the 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.