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.

Sonali Pattnaik

Founder

COO & Co-founder at Lighthouz AI

Atlanta Metropolitan Area

FoundedLighthouz AI · YC

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.

COO & Co-founder at Lighthouz AI YC S24

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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In turn, Sonali can intro founders to Lighthouz AI's investors below.

Lighthouz AI's investors · 2

Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2024 Z21 VenturesSan Francisco Bay Area · $500K – $1M checks

Co-founders at Lighthouz AI

Srijan KumarCEO & Co-founder

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

founderMarketingOptimization5Machine Learning6Data Analysis5Artificial Intelligence3Programming3C6C++4Python4Deep Learning1Data A

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Statistical LearningApplied MathematicsMachineMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft Azure Machine LearningMicrosoft Power BISQLHadoopNatural Language Processing (NLP)Data MiningSparkApache Spark

Languages 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.