Anish Agrawal is the CEO and Co-founder of Traversal, where he and his team are revolutionizing observability and troubleshooting with AI Agents. A Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at Columbia University, Anish earned his PhD in Computer Science from MIT, specializing in causal machine learning—teaching AI to understand cause and effect from data. Despite achieving his goal of becoming a professor, Anish pivoted from academia, recognizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apply his AI research to tackle the industry’s toughest challenges, with autonomous troubleshooting at the forefront. His career also includes roles as a management consultant at BCG and research scientist at Amazon and Microsoft Research.