Prakhar Mehrotra is the Managing Director of Applied AI at Blackstone. He is responsible for helping Blackstone's portfolio companies apply AI and capitalize on this powerful technology.

Prior to joining Blackstone, Prakhar served as Corporate Vice President and Head of Applied AI for Walmart US. He led Walmart's team to win the prestigious Franz Edelman Prize 2023 by Institute of Operations Research and Managment Sciences (INFORMS) for its work on supply chain optimization. Prior to Walmart, he led the AI group at Uber. He started his career as data scientist at Twitter.

Prakhar holds PhD in Aeronautics from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and Master's from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. He is a two time recipient of the Edelman Medal (2020, 2023) and IEEE Senior Member. He serves on the peer review committee for major AI conferences (ICLR, AAMAS, CVPR, INFORMS). He was named in the AI 100 list as top people in Artificial Intelligence. During his graduate studies, he was awarded the Ernest E. Sechler Award in Aeronautics by Caltech and the Gaspard Monge Medal from Ecole Polytechnique.