Chirranjeevi "Chirru" Gopal is the CTO and Co-Founder of Mitra Chem. He is responsible for Mitra Chem's product roadmap spanning LFP through next-generation cathode materials and processes and the AI-enabled technology platform that accelerates key bottleneck from development through scale-up. He has a decade of experience at the intersection of battery materials, product development and machine learning. Prior to Mitra Chem, Chirru led battery analytics at Toyota at R&D and production scale. Chirru has a PhD in Applied Physics and Materials Science from Caltech and a Post-Doc from Stanford University.