Atul is a leader, advisor, and influencer helping global organizations with digital transformation, business model innovation, and emerging technologies. He works across a number of industry verticals including healthcare, financial services, technology, and telecom. Atul takes an unorthodox and provocative, yet structured, approach to innovation leading to ideas that grow the business, improve operations, and improve customer experience. Drawing upon his experience in both enterprise organizations and startups, Atul brings a startup mentality to the enterprise. Leveraging his expertise in emerging technologies, Atul helps clients with prototypes, proofs of concept, and production implementations of ideas that filter through the innovation funnel. The proofs of concept and implementations often leverage some combination of AI, machine learning, big data, cloud computing, blockchain, IoT, 5G, edge computing, and cybersecurity.Atul holds a Digital Transformation Certificate from Cornell University, a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Atul holds one patent, is the editor of two books/conference proceedings, and author of forty refereed publications in computer vision, AI/ML, and neural networks.