Anand is an LLM psychologist at Straive, where he researches AI and publishes demos. He co-founded Gramener, a data stories company, which was acquired in 2023. He teaches Tools in Data Science at IIT Madras. He’s among India’s top 10 data scientists and AI influencers and also a regular TEDx/Pycon speaker.

Anand is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, IIT Madras, London Business School, IBM, Infosys Consulting, Lehman Brothers, and BCG.

More importantly, he hand-transcribed every Calvin & Hobbes strip ever, is addicted to Minecraft & Anime (thanks to his daughter), and dreams of watching every film on the IMDb Top 250 (except The Shining).