Anand Rao

Anand Rao is a Distinguished Services Professor of Applied Data Science and AI at the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University
Anand Rao has focused on research, innovation, applications, business and societal adoption of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence over his 35-year consulting, industry, and academic career. Anand was the Global Artificial Intelligence Leader for PwC, a Partner in their Data, Analytics, and AI practice, and the Innovation lead for AI in PwC’s Products and Technology segment. Anand led a team of practitioners who advised C-level executives to develop and implement advanced analytics and AI-based solutions across several industry sectors, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, technology-media-telecommunications, retail, aerospace, and defense sectors. With his Ph.D. and research career in Artificial Intelligence and his subsequent experience in management consulting, he brings business domain knowledge, software engineering expertise, statistical expertise, and modeling expertise to generate unique insights into the practice of ‘data science’ and artificial intelligence.

Before joining management consulting, Anand was the Chief Research Scientist at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, where he built agent-based models and simulation systems and conducted research in the theory and practice of multi-agent systems.