Indian-origin professor is driving innovation in artificial intelligence in Canada

Professor Ajay Agrawal feels like he's back in 1995. That year, the first major commercial Internet service providers like AOL went online and Yahoo's search engine became available to the public. It was an inflection point for the Internet and, Agrawal believes, artificial intelligence or AI may now be nearing that stage. Agrawal, 47, is a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, but he also happens to be the founder of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL). He has emerged as a prominent figure in the field of machine learning, with CDL's AI stream.