Founder & CEO

Dr. Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, PhD, CFA, CIPM, is the Founder and CEO of Elystar Investment Management, a SEBI-registered, innovation-driven investment advisory firm offering wealth management solutions for HNIs and institutions.

Education: Dr. Vadlamudi is an alumnus of both the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and Harvard University. He earned his B.Tech. (Hons) and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from IIT Kharagpur and completed the Senior Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.
Dr. Vadlamudi is also a CFA® Charterholder, a CIPM® Designation holder, and holds the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Certification and the Investment Adviser Certifications from the National Institute of Securities Markets.

Work Experience: Dr. Vadlamudi has held leadership roles, including Vice President/Head of Data Science & AI at CreditVidya, where his team developed award-winning AI products for credit inclusion and risk assessment. He also led the Data Science division at Capillary Technologies, launching AI-powered analytics and personalized marketing solutions for retail. Earlier roles include Software Engineer at Google, Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University, and Research Scientist at Intel Labs.

Research: He has been granted multiple patents for his innovations and published over 20 peer-reviewed articles in top international forums, garnering over 900 citations. His contributions span core AI algorithms, combinatorial search, diverse solution generation, explainable AI, parallel computing, fault-tolerance analysis, and dependable systems, with novel applications in spatio-temporal data mining, cybersecurity using game theory, and defense decision support.

Awards: Dr. Vadlamudi’s accolades include the Pratibha Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the SAP Labs Doctoral Fellowship, and the 40 Under 40 Data Scientists Award by Analytics India Magazine. He has been an invited speaker at prestigious venues like the Aerospace Luminary Lecture Series by the Aeronautical Society of India and served on program committees for top-tier AI research conferences such as IJCAI and AAAI. He was ranked among the top 50 in India in the IIT JEE Screening of 2004.

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