Anish Agarwal is the CEO and Cofounder of Traversal, the frontier lab behind the first and only AI SRE platform validated within the Fortune 100. Backed by Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins, Traversal helps enterprises autonomously prevent, diagnose, and heal production incidents at scale. A professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at Columbia University, Anish earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT, specializing in causal machine learning — teaching AI to understand cause and effect from data. His career also includes roles as a management consultant at BCG and research scientist at Amazon and Microsoft.