Chandra Jonelagadda has spent his life pushing boundaries and redefining what’s possible. His expertise in high-performance distributed computing platforms, privacy-preserving distributed analytics, and enterprise-grade ML and AI applications has allowed him to make major contributions to projects across a wide variety of fields. Notable achievements have included helping build a counterterrorism platform capable of identifying patterns of suspicious activity while balancing critical civil liberties concerns, and creating a system to better connect states’ child welfare agencies to speed up interstate placement of children in foster care and adoptions.