Sunrun appointed Rachit Srivastava as Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Rachit joins Sunrun after nearly three years as Head of Machine Learning at Cockroach Labs. As Head of AI, Rachit will lead Sunrun?s AI strategy and focus on driving innovation and integrating cutting-edge technologies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics across Sunrun?s products and services.

His efforts will lead to increased customer value and a more intelligent, personalized experience, as well as improved cost efficiency and reduced cycle times. Rachit has extensive knowledge in artificial intelligence with nearly 17 years of experience in building machine learning products and statistical models for a variety of industries, including finance, advertising technology, location intelligence, health technology and infrastructure. He has developed forecasting algorithms and consumer behavior models for some of the large financial institutions, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.

Rachit most recently led machine learning and data science for Cockroach Labs, where he helped scale a distributed SQL database used by prominent companies across several consumer-facing industries. Prior to Cockroach Labs, he used AI and machine learning to build trading signals from alternative data sets in his role as Vice President of Research and Modeling at Two Sigma, a leading quantitative trading hedge fund. He holds a Master of Science in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

He also holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia.