Dattaraj Jagdish Rao

Summary

Dattaraj Jagdish Rao is the author of the book “Keras to Kubernetes: The journey of a Machine Learning model to Production”. Dattaraj leads the AI Research Lab at Persistent and is responsible for driving thought leadership in AI/ML across the company. He leads a team that explores state-of-the-art algorithms in Computer Vision, Natural Language Understanding, Probabilistic Programming, Reinforcement Learning, Explainable AI, etc. and demonstrates applicability in Healthcare, Banking and Industrial domains. Earlier, he worked at General Electric (GE) for 19 years building Industrial IoT solutions for Predictive Maintenance, Digital Twins and Machine Vision. He held several Technology Leadership roles at Global Research, GE Power and Transportation (now part of Wabtec). He led the Innovation team out of Bangalore that incubated video track-inspection from an idea into a commercial Product. Dattaraj has 11 patents in Machine Learning and Computer Vision areas.