Valliappa (Lak) Lakshmanan

Lak is an operating executive at Silver Lake, an investment firm. He helps management teams in the portfolio employ data and AI-driven innovation to grow their businesses.
Prior to Silver Lake, 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.