Faculty

Neena Sathi

Neena has three masters degrees including MBA from leading US universities.  She is Master certified integration architect from IBM and Open Group as well as certified Project management professional (PMP) from Project management institute. She is also certified in many Cloud and Cognitive technologies. She has widely presented and published many papers in AAAI, IEEE, WCF, ECF, IBM Information on Demand, IBM Insight, World of Watson, IBM Developer Works and various academic journals.

Dr. Mark Fox

Mark S. Fox is the Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering at the University of Toronto and a Principal with Applied AI Institute. He is a Professor of Industrial Engineering with a cross appointment in the Department of Computer Science, Associate Director for Research in the School of Cities, Director of the Centre for Social Services Engineering, and head of the Enterprise Integration Laboratory. Prof. Fox is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), was a AAAI councilor, and was a co-founder of the AAAI Special Interest Group in Manufacturing. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He was a joint fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research and PRECARN. He is a past holder of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Enterprise Integration, and was a Senior Fellow in the Global Cities Institute. He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1975, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983.

He was a founding member of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University as well as the founding Director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory within the Institute. He co-founded Carnegie Group Inc. in 1984, a software company that specialized in Artificial Intelligence-based systems for solving engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications problems, and was its Vice-President of Engineering and President/CEO. In 1991, Dr. Fox returned to the University of Toronto where he was appointed the NSERC Research Chairholder in Enterprise Integration, and Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science. In 1993, Dr. Fox co-founded and was CEO of Novator Systems Ltd., a pioneer in E-Retail software and services. In 2013 he was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto, and an Academic Advisor to the iCity Lab, Singapore Management University. In 2014, he was the founding director of the Centre for Social Services Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering whose goal is to apply engineering principles to the design and delivery of social services to the vulnerable in our society. In 2015 he was named a University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering.

Suvesh Balasubramanian

Suvesh is a principal at Applied AI Institute. He has over 25 years of broad base industry, management consulting and advisory experience aligning enterprise strategy and outcomes with technology enabled business solutions. He has held senior leadership and management positions at UHG, UTi Worldwide, KPMG and E&Y. 

Suvesh has successfully led and delivered several large transformation initiatives and implementations working with Fortune 100 companies and mid size enterprises spanning across a wide array of industries including Hi-Tech, Financial Services, Logistics, Consumer & Retail and Healthcare. Suvesh has a strong background and implementation experience in Transformational Business and Information Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Customer Experience Management, Supply Chain Management, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, Robotics Process Automation, Machine Learning, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Software Development & Integration and Portfolio / Program Governance.

An early adopter of Agile Scrum and Extreme Programming (XP) practice, Suvesh has led multiple Agile Transformation initiatives utilizing several lean and scaled Agile methodologies, built out Agile competencies and delivered Agile mindset driven enterprise solutions. His expertise is in bringing a balanced mix of broad strategic thinking, deep technical expertise and tactical execution with a deep understanding of the intersection between business, technology and operations. 

Dean Larsen

Dean Larsen is a principal at Applied AI Institute.  He has 30+ years of experience envisioning, designing, developing and implementing emerging information technology  solutions associated with reducing risk, generating new revenue sources, disrupting industries, improved  customer experience, and automated controls for many Fortune 500 organizations. He has worked in senior technical positions at KPMG, IBM and the American Airlines AI Technology Team.
He has lead engagements using current AI tools like Alteryx and Tableau. He specialized in the Artificial Intelligence-based systems for solving travel industry yield management challenges at American Airlines. Dean was able to change the course of AI resources at global manufacturers to focus on future offers instead of ad-hoc reporting. His years of experience in data governance and data modeling allows him to provide unique insights in proprietary data and big data repositories. He has directed countless engagements yielding actionable results that have established improved processes, reduced risk and unprecedented insights.