---
title: "Aparna Dhinakaran"
category: "people"
role: "CPO"
company: "Arize"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/"
twitter: "https://x.com/aparnadhinak"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Aparna Dhinakaran

## Profile
CPO at [[arize|Arize]].

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aparnadhinakaran/)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/aparnadhinak)

## Biography
Aparna Dhinakaran is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at [[arize|Arize]] AI, a pioneer and early leader in AI & Agent observability and evaluation. A frequent speaker at top conferences and thought leader in the space, Dhinakaran was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30. Before [[arize|Arize]], Dhinakaran was an ML engineer and leader at Uber, Apple, and TubeMogul (acquired by Adobe). During her time at Uber, she built several core ML Infrastructure platforms, including Michealangelo. She has a bachelor’s from Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science program, where she published research with Berkeley's AI Research group.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-laurie-voss-evals-track-intro]] — Evals Track Intro (2026-06-30, 10:25am-10:30am)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-06-30-laurie-voss-evals-track-intro|Evals Track Intro]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-Xfl50508LZM` — 22,591 transcript words; 6 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-Xfl50508LZM`: evals, eval, data, should, judge, output, whether, phoenix.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-Xfl50508LZM`: phoenix, prompt, settings, general, detect, regressions, change, compare.
- Evidence links for `youtube-Xfl50508LZM`: [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM]], [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM-transcript]], [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM-slides]], [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM-dense-slides]], [[youtube-Xfl50508LZM-reconstructed-slides]]