Rudrendu Kumar Paul is an AI Expert and Applied ML industry professional with over 15 years of experience across various sectors. Rudrendu has worked at some of the largest companies in the world, including PayPal, Staples, IMF, and Power Grid Corporation. In these roles, he has gained extensive knowledge and skills in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Statistical Optimization, and Advanced Analytics Applications while applying them across multiple industries, including retail media (ads), fintech, e-commerce, retail, supply chain, logistics, power systems, and robotics. In addition to his professional accomplishments, Rudrendu serves as a judge/expert at several global startup competitions and business awards, has multiple publications on AI applications, and is an active reviewer for more than five reputed journals, including IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer Nature, on AI/ML, Data Science, and Analytics and serves as an Advisory Board Member at the University of California, Riverside. Rudrendu holds an MBA and MS in Data Science from Boston University (Boston, MA, USA) and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering.