Prasad Saripalli serves as the Vice President of ML & AI and Distinguished Engineer at MindBody Inc - a portfolio company of Vista which manages the world's fourth-largest enterprise software company after Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP. Earlier, he served as VP Data Science at Edifecs, an industry premier healthcare technology provider, and led the development of Smart Decisions ML & AI Platform with ML  Apps Front. Prior to joining Edifecs, he was CTO at Secrata.com, which provides military-grade cloud security solutions. Previously, he worked as chief technology officer and executive VP at ClipCard and as Chief Architect for IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise. He also served as the GPM on Microsoft's Client Virtualization team, which was responsible for shipping Virtual PC on Windows 7, and as a Dev Manager on the Citrix group that built Citrix Presentation Server (now Citrix XenApp). Prasad obtained doctoral training in Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Florida and post-doctoral training from The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses in AI, ML, Advanced ML, Game AI, NLP, Networking, Cloud & Distributed Systems at the Northeastern University.