Vamshi Ambati, PhD is an accomplished data scientist and entrepreneur in the Bay Area. He is the Founder and CEO of PredEra, an AI product and solutions startup, which specializes in data science, text mining, machine learning, personalization, and machine translation. He is also an adjunct faculty member at IIIT Hyderabad and teaches at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Vamshi's educational background includes a BTech in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology, a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and a Master's in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests cover a wide range of topics encompassing machine learning, natural language processing, software engineering, digital libraries, machine translation, and information retrieval.

Prior to founding PredEra, Vamshi served as the Founder and Principal at LatentStructure LLC, Director of Data Science & Engineering at Base CRM (acquired by Zendesk), lead data scientist at PayPal/eBay Inc., and research scientist at AT&T Interactive. He has also served as the founder and CTO of CrowdEagle and a research intern at AT&T's Shannon Labs.

Overall, Vamshi's professional journey has been focused on developing innovative solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. He has extensive experience in leading and managing research teams, working with large datasets, and building end-to-end AI-powered products.