Practical AI · Thursday, September 3, 2026
Chaiten Gupta, Chief AI Officer at Rackspace, shared his diverse career path, starting with a PhD in mathematics and progressing through research roles at Hewlett Packard Labs and Hitachi. He eventually led global AI research at Hitachi before moving to Rackspace.
“Sure, sure. Daniel, so my background is actually quite diverse. It's sort of atypical of people in my, in my role.”
“Um, I started off with a PhD in mathematics, then I joined Hewlett Packard Labs as a research scientist working on data mining, machine learning. Um, then I joined Hitachi as, uh, principal researcher, if I remember correctly.”
“And that's what I did. And we were focused a lot, besides focused, we started with focus on industrial AI as we defined it at the time.”