AI for a better world

Ashok N. Srivastava is the senior vice president and chief data officer at Intuit, where he is responsible for setting the vision and direction for large-scale machine learning and AI across the enterprise to help power prosperity across the world—and in the process is hiring hundreds of people in machine learning, AI, and related areas at all levels. Ashok has extensive experience in research, development, and implementation of machine learning and optimization techniques on massive datasets and serves as an advisor in the area of big data analytics and strategic investments to companies including Trident Capital and MyBuys. Previously, Ashok was vice president of big data and artificial intelligence systems and the chief data scientist at Verizon, where his global team focused on building new revenue-generating products and services powered by big data and artificial intelligence; senior director at Blue Martini Software; and senior consultant at IBM. He is an adjunct professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford and is the editor-in-chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Ashok is a fellow of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He has won numerous awards, including the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal, the IBM Golden Circle Award, the Department of Education Merit Fellowship, and several fellowships from the University of Colorado. Ashok holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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