Prateek is an Artificial Intelligence researcher, a published author of 7 books, and a TEDx speaker. He is the founder of Pluto AI, a venture-funded Silicon Valley startup building an analytics platform for smart water management. His tech blog (www.prateekjoshi.com) has received 1.3M+ page views from 200+ countries and has 6,600+ followers. He has been an invited speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences including TEDx, AT&T Foundry, Global Big Data Conference, and Silicon Valley Deep Learning. He has won many hackathon prizes, including at Facebook. He graduated from University of Southern California with a Masters degree specializing in Artificial Intelligence. He has previously worked at Nvidia and Microsoft Research. You can learn more about him on his personal website at www.prateekj.com.