Deepak Turaga is senior vice president of data science at Oden Technologies, an industrial IoT company focused on using AI to monitor, optimize and control manufacturing processes. He has a background in academic and industry research specializing in using machine learning based tools to extract insights from streaming and real-time data. He has previously built ML-based systems in the healthcare and telecom domains, and is now focused on doing the same for manufacturing. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and teaches a course on this topic every spring.