Anand Chandrasekaran is the Founder and CTO of Mad Street Den, an Artificial Intelligence company. Mad Street Den is known for its AI platform, Blox – a general purpose AI platform powering the AI needs of large enterprises across the globe. Anand and his global team have been instrumental in building IP in this space and bringing about systematic adoption of AI across industries ranging from Retail to Healthcare, Finance, Education and more. With a body of experience that includes work with IBM, DARPA, Stanford and more, Anand is one of the few in the world with a combination of Biology (Neuroscience), Hardware (Neuromorphic Engineering) and Software (AI systems). A Neuroscientist by background, Anand’s experience and expertise spans a wide range of areas including: healthcare and diagnostics using AI, scientific research on mammalian brains,  and hardware and software expertise in building brains.