Gopalan is a highly accomplished thought leader in AI, and he brings a wealth of experience in AI, ML, Analytics and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) He currently heads the AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE) at Intel India, where he leads a team of AI Research Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to deliver transformational AI capabilities for various business functions within Intel. His core competencies include Generative AI, machine learning, Graph Neural networks, natural language processing, optimization, data mining, and data visualization. The AI CoE has been recognized globally, in conferences like NeurIPS, IEEE and in IECS. The CoE has also filed couple of patents in advanced AI techniques. Gopalan is also a prolific speaker and a panelist on AI. He has done several talks in NASSCOM, Indian School of Business (ISB), IIM Udaipur, IIM Shillong with many other institutions in India and globally. Gopalan is a Mechanical Engineer from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore and holds an MBA from IIM, Bangalore. In addition, Gopalan holds several certifications in AI and ML from renowned universities including Stanford, MIT, and University of Texas at Austin. He is also a Heartfulness Meditation trainer and practitione