Dr. Saurabh Mishra is the Founder and CEO of Taiyō.AI. His career has spanned diverse roles, integrating research, teaching, AI policy, megaprojects, risk management, and decision-making. His research is focused on a systems architecture approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how such systems can help humans make more sustainable investment and policy decisions. Previously, he served as Director of Stanford University's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), where he helped launch the Stanford AI Index and built the Global AI Vibrancy Toolkit. He has taught various business and policy programs, including at UC Berkeley and the University of San Francisco. Before these roles, he served at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), working on economic growth, technology, inequality, and economic development.
He serves as a Visiting Fellow at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an OECD.AI member. He received a Ph.D. in Reliability Engineering from the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Dr. Mishra’s research has been published in various journals, including Scientific Reports - Nature, Journal of Risk Analysis, Journal of Service Research, Journal of International Money and Finance, Open Economies Review, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, books by Oxford University Press, as well as numerous World Bank and IMF Policy Papers. He’s a frequent keynote speaker and guest lecturer at business, policy, and academic forums.