Manasi Vartak

Chief AI Architect of Cloudera

Manasi Vartak is Cloudera’s Chief AI Architect. She is the founder and CEO of Verta, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of the Verta Operational AI & LLM platform and the Verta Model Catalog that was recently acquired by Cloudera. Manasi invented experiment management and tracking while at MIT CSAIL when she created ModelDB, the first open-source model management system deployed at Fortune-500 companies and the progenitor of MLflow. After earning her Ph.D. from MIT, Vartak went on to data science positions at Twitter, where she worked on deep learning for content recommendation, and Google, where she worked on dynamic ad-targeting.