Srinivas Padmanabhuni is a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. He is the chief Mentor for Tarah technologies an AI consulting company through which he does marquee training and strategic consulting work in AI for enterprises, a pressing need now in the market. Srinivas Padmanabhuni is currently founding CityMandi.com a next generation AI enabled smart B2B startup in Food Tech. He has been conferred the title of Eminent Engineer by IEI for his lifetime contributions. He is also a Governance Board member of Totalstart. an entrepreneurship development organization. He specializes in areas of software engineering, services computing, business process management, artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning. He has consulted for several Global 2000 enterprises, delivered over 100 invited talks, has around 7 granted & 15 filed patents, over 70 international referred publications, and one published book by Wiley to his credit. He is the Past President of ACM India. Earlier, he was a Principal Research Scientist and Associate Vice President at Infosys where he overlooked the university innovation ecosystem, alongside research and innovation group in Infosys Labs. He has conducted several CXO level technology led innovation workouts at over 50 marquee customers. He has won several awards including the excellence award for Innovation at Infosys, Research excellence award at University of Alberta, and Merit award at IIT Kanpur,

He has worked in multiple startups out of USA, Canada and India. Dr. Srinivas holds a doctorate degree in computing science from University of Alberta, Edmonton ,Canada, specializing in AI. Prior to Ph.D. he secured his B.Tech and M.Tech in computer science from Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur and Mumbai respectively.

Specialties: innovation, research, design thinking, machine learning, AI, mining software repositories,thought leadership,global software development,mentoring,technology architecting, soa, bpm