Ashwin Rao
Chief Technology Officer at o9 Solutions, Inc.
Palo Alto, California, United States
About Ashwin Rao
Ashwin Rao is Chief Technology Officer at o9 Solutions, Inc. Location: Palo Alto, California, United States.
Ashwin Rao has more than two decades of experience as a leader in the Finance and Retail industries, with a consistent focus on creating outsized business value through technological innovations. Specifically, he has led science and engineering teams building products for Trading, Risk-Management, Pricing, Forecasting, Supply-Chain, Personalized Customer Experience. He brings unique skills in translating challenging business problems into technical specifications, and solving them by blending traditional mathematical/algorithmic methods with modern machine learning methods. Ashwin is currently CTO of o9 Solutions, an AI company that delivers products and solutions to hundreds of customers for enterprise planning & execution. Ashwin is also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he focuses his research and teaching on AI for Sequential Optimal Decisioning under Uncertainty, particularly Reinforcement Learning algorithms and particularly applied to financial trading and retail industry problems. He is the author of a book on Reinforcement Learning for Trading (https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Reinforcement-Learning-Applications-Finance/dp/), and has developed extensive open-source code for models and algorithms on this topic.
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Additional experience
Adjunct Professor, Applied Mathematics (ICME)
Stanford University
Started January 2018
Education
- B.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- Ph.D., University of Southern California