About

Aparna Dhinakaran is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Arize AI, a female-founded startup that is innovating in the shopping space. With over 12 years of relevant experience, Aparna is a highly skilled professional with expertise in AI, ML, DevOps, Frontend, Backend, and Data Science. Prior to founding Arize AI, Aparna worked as a Forbes AI Columnist at Forbes, where she co-led the design and development of Uber's first model lifecycle management system for data science and machine learning models. She also designed and developed Uber's real-time events, weather, and holiday source of truth used in forecasting demand and supply around the world. Aparna contributed to the real-time hexagon based geospatial system that is used at the core of the Uber marketplace algorithms for optimal drivers positioning, surge pricing calculation, dynamic cities clustering, operations, and data analyses. Aparna's experience also includes co-founding and serving as CEO of Monitor ML, an emerging technologies company. She has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Vision from Cornell University, and a Certificate in Leadership from Harvard Business School Executive Education. Aparna is also a Y Combinator alumnus. At Arize AI, Aparna is leading a team that is hiring for backend engineers, frontend engineers, devops engineers, product designers, product marketing managers, technical content writers, and more. She is excited about AI/ML and is looking for passionate individuals to join her incredible team.