Kavita Annapoorani Ganesan is an internationally recognized, award-winning author who is helping leaders and practitioners facing the challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
Kavita Annapoorani Ganesan was born in Malaysia and is now based in the USA. She is an author, data scientist and AI consultant acclaimed for her research in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing.
She is the founder of Opinosis Analytics, an AI, generative AI and machine learning consulting firm based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kavita works with teams across the organization to help them integrate AI strategically and get meaningful outcomes from every initiative. She is an internationally recognized, award-winning author of The Business Case for AI: A Leader’s Guide to AI Strategies, Best Practices & Real-World Applications.
With over 15 years’ experience in AI for practical applications and more than 20 years in the tech industry, Kavita has scaled and delivered multiple successful AI initiatives for Fortune 500 companies as well as mid-sized operations and newly funded AI startups.
She has, most notably, worked with eBay, 3M, GitHub and McMaster-Carr, and has helped leaders and practitioners around the world through her blog posts, coaching sessions and open-source tools.
Kavita holds degrees from prestigious computer science programs, specifically a Masters from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, with a specialization in natural language processing, search technologies and machine learning.
She has been featured in numerous media outlets including Forbes, CEOWORLD magazine, CMSWire, Verizon, SD Times, Techopedia, and tED magazine.