Michelangelo D' Agostino

Michelangelo D’Agostino is the VP of AI / ML at Grainger, where his team builds AI-driven products for the maintenance, repair, and operations industry. Prior to Grainger, Michelangelo held data and machine learning leadership roles at Tegus -- a fintech company acquired by AlphaSense in 2024, Cameo--a marketplace for celebrity shout-out videos, ShopRunner--an ecommerce retail network that was acquired by FedEx, and Civis Analytics, a Chicago-based data science software and consulting company that spun out of the 2012 Obama reelection campaign. Michelangelo holds a PhD in particle astrophysics from UC Berkeley and got his start in analytics sifting through neutrino data from the IceCube experiment. Accordingly, he spent two glorious months at the South Pole, where he slept in a tent salvaged from the Korean War and enjoyed the twice-weekly shower rationing. He’s also written about science and technology for the Economist.