Akshika is a leader in AI innovation for financial services where he heads Machine Learning at MainStreet Partners. In addition, he also serves as an advisor and CTO at Tilli Kids. Akshika holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and completed his postdoctoral research at King's College London. He is an alum of the Oxford ML summer school and a recipient of the UK global talent visa for his exceptional talent in the field of machine learning. Akshika brings a wealth of experience from both academia and industry, with expertise in financial services, Large Language Models, ML-Ops, Explainable AI, privacy, and HCI.