The potential use cases for Agentic AI are enormous: Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer, Cognizant

Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation to large-scale deployment in just a few years. Few people have had a front-row seat to that evolution like Babak Hodjat, Chief AI Officer at Cognizant. Babak Hodjat leads Cognizant’s AI Research Labs, where teams of researchers and developers are advancing the frontiers of agentic AI and building next-generation capabilities across the company’s platforms and services. A serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he previously co-founded Sentient, the company behind the world’s largest distributed AI system, and later launched the world’s first AI-driven hedge fund, Sentient Investment Management.

Earlier in his career, Hodjat co-founded Dejima and invented the agent-oriented technology that eventually powered the intelligent interface behind Apple’s Siri. With more than 50 research publications and 39 issued US patents across artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and distributed AI, Hodjat has spent decades shaping the technologies ...