Ankur A. Patel is an AI entrepreneur, thought leader, and author. He is currently the cofounder and head of data at Glean and the cofounder of Mellow. Glean uses natural language processing to deliver vendor spend intelligence within an accounts payable solution. Mellow develops easy-to-use natural language processing APIs for developers to use as part of their product build.

He is the author of Hands-on Unsupervised Learning Using Python and Applied Natural Language Processing in the Enterprise, both O’Reilly Media publications.