Dattaraj Rao works as a principal architect at General Electric (GE) and is based in Bangalore, India. He is a Mechanical Engineer by education and spent the last 19 years at GE building software that monitors and controls industrial machines like gas turbines, compressors, and locomotives. He started his career at Global Research working on knowledge‐based engineering for product design. Then he joined GE Power at Norfolk, VA as the lead for gas turbine condition monitoring software. He held several roles at GE Power, including Chief Software Architect for the remote monitoring and diagnostics business. Dattaraj moved back to India in 2013 and joined GE Transportation as innovation leader for programs on video analytics and prognostics.

Currently, Dattaraj leads the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) strategy for the transportation business. He is building Industrial IoT solutions that drive outcomes like predictive maintenance, machine vision, and digital twins. His team is building a state‐of‐the‐art Machine Learning platform to address major data science concerns like data cleansing, preparation, model selection, hyper‐parameter tuning, distributed training, and automated deployment. This platform based on Kubernetes will host the next generation industrial Internet solutions for transportation.

He has 11 patents filed through GE and is a certified GE Analytics Engineer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Goa Engineering College, India.

You can reach him at [email protected] or linkedin.com/in/dattarajrao or on Twitter @DattarajR.