Laurent El Ghaoui is Professor in EECS and IEOR at UC Berkeley and member of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab. He teaches Financial Data Science within the Masters of Financial Engineering at the Haas School of Business. In 2016 he co-founded Kayrros S.A.S., a company that delivers physical asset information for the energy markets from various sources such as satellite imagery; in 2018 he co-founded sumup.ai, which provides high-speed streaming text analytics for enterprise applications.