Sonali Pattnaik
FounderCOO & Co-founder at Lighthouz AI
Atlanta Metropolitan Area
FoundedLighthouz AI · YC
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About
Sonali Pattnaik is CTO and co-founder of Lighthouz AI. She previously held AI leadership roles at Progressive, American Family, and Halliburton, with experience in building and deploying AI technologies across multiple industries; she holds multiple US patents and has published papers in the field.
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Intro paths
Sonali went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, Monzo and GoCardless co-founder; Y Combinator partner on leave and Anthropic compute-team member. — the partner who ran Lighthouz AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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Co-founders at Lighthouz AI

Experience
- Lighthouz AICo-Founder & COOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Private companiesAngel investorcurrent2024 — present
- Progressive InsuranceLead AI Scientist2023 — 2024Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- American Family InsuranceData Science Leadership2021 — 2023Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- HalliburtonSenior Data Scientist2018 — 2021Houston, Texas, United States
- University of WashingtonGraduate Student2017 — 2018Greater Seattle Area
- University of WashingtonResearch Project - NASA Space Grant Consortium2017 — 2018Greater Seattle Area
- Insight Data ScienceArtificial Intelligence Fellow2018Silicon Valley
- HalliburtonResearch And Development Intern2017Houston, Texas Area
- Colorado School of MinesResearch Assistant2014 — 2017
- HalliburtonSoftware Development Intern2016Houston, Texas Area
- BG GroupResearch Intern2013Mumbai Area, India
Skills & more
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Statistical LearningApplied MathematicsMachineMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft Azure Machine LearningMicrosoft Power BISQLHadoopNatural Language Processing (NLP)Data MiningSparkApache SparkLanguages English
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Sonali Pattnaik?
- Sonali Pattnaik is CTO and co-founder of Lighthouz AI. She previously held AI leadership roles at Progressive, American Family, and Halliburton, with experience in building and deploying AI technologies across multiple industries; she holds multiple US patents and has published papers in the field.
- Where does Sonali Pattnaik work?
- Sonali Pattnaik is COO & Co-founder of Lighthouz AI.
- What companies did Sonali Pattnaik found?
- Sonali Pattnaik founded Lighthouz AI.
- Where did Sonali Pattnaik go to school?
- Sonali Pattnaik studied at Y Combinator; University of Washington (Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and data science); Colorado School of Mines.
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