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Oden Technologies Appoints New Chief Technology Officer

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Oden Technologies is pleased to announce that Deepak Turaga has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer. In this role, Turaga will be responsible for leading the technical vision and direction of the company, as well as overseeing the development of its innovative industrial analytics software solution.

Dr. Deepak Turaga
Dr. Deepak Turaga
Oden Technologies is pleased to announce that Deepak Turaga has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer.

Previous to Oden Technologies, Turaga was a Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager of the AI First ML and Planning group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He holds a B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has published over 100 journal and conference papers and one book on large-scale data stream processing. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University since 2009.

“Deepak joined us over four years ago as VP of Data Science and has been instrumental in driving our vision and execution ever since,” said Willem Sundblad, co-founder and CEO of Oden Technologies. “This new role reflects his growth as a technologist and leader in driving intelligent automation in manufacturing. I’m very excited to continue to see Deepak grow as an individual and continue to deliver world-class, differentiating technology that drives value for our customers every day.”

Turaga’s deep understanding of data science, the manufacturing space, and technology has been instrumental in the company’s strong growth. While heading the company’s Data Science and Engineering teams as the Senior Vice President of Data Science and Engineering, Turaga led transformations to make Oden a leader in using artificial intelligence and machine learning to advance manufacturing processes. Now, Oden processes over a billion production events daily, enables contextual analysis through disparate sources, and continuously delivers AI-generated predictions and recommendations that enable peak performance directly to factory floor staff.

“Our team is able to work on incredibly complex problems that lie at the intersection of manufacturing, distributed computing, and AI,” said Turaga. “The result is deeply rewarding, as we get to improve operations and engineering teams’ day to day and help our customers solve their biggest problems to drive efficiency and sustainability. I am incredibly excited to be moving into this new role with Oden and to continue on the great work we get to do.”

With Turaga’s expanded leadership role, Oden Technologies will continue to set new standards for industrial analytics solutions and the ability of manufacturers to unlock the power of data to improve processes. Please join the Oden team in congratulating him on this well-deserved promotion.

ABOUT ODEN TECHNOLOGIES

Oden Technologies is a manufacturing analytics solution company focusing on process and continuous manufacturers. Oden is the only manufacturing solution to give all teams frictionless plant floor insights and artificial intelligence without complex data querying and management. The company uniquely merges, cleans, and enriches all production data sources automatically into a real-time, adaptable data infrastructure for turnkey, reliable, and actionable intelligence. The company’s mission is to give plant teams the insights and visibility they need to optimize production and hit peak factory performance, with minimal barriers. Oden investors include Atomico, EQT Ventures, and Inbox Capital. Learn more at oden.io.

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