Founded on Breakthrough Science. Built for Industrial Control.

Who We Are

RLCore was founded to bring reinforcement learning out of the lab and into live industrial environments. We build AI software that operates safely inside real-world control architectures and alongside existing infrastructure - where reliability, operator trust, and economic performance matter.

Co-founders Martha White and Adam White are internationally recognized leaders with decades of experience in RL, providing the scientific foundation that underpins our product. President & CPO Ganesh Rao brings extensive experience scaling product and technology organizations, leading RLCore’s product and commercialization efforts.

Our Mission

"Our mission is to democratize optimization by building the intelligence layer for industrial control."

Global industry is governed by legacy control systems that are often rigid, manual, and reactive. We believe that the next era of industrial efficiency won't come from replacing these systems, but from making them more intelligent.

RLCore provides the intelligence layer that integrates directly with existing SCADA, PLC, and DCS architectures to drive real-time autonomous optimization.

Our Vision

"Our vision is to empower every plant to be more productive and run adaptive, self-optimizing processes - continuously, affordably, and without specialist intervention."

We envision a more sustainable world in which complex, physical processes are optimized in real-time through the seamless integration of reinforcement learning.

From water treatment and chemical production to energy system and microgrid management, we see a future with less waste, greater output, and ensured stability.

Meet Our Leaders and Deep Tech Experts

Our work sits at the intersection of advanced machine learning and mission-critical industrial operations.

Ganesh Rao

President, CEO, & Co-Founder

Ganesh is President, Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Founder of RLCore, where he leads product vision and strategy, engineering execution, customer engagement, go-to-market, sales, and investor relations. He brings decades of experience building high-performing teams and scaling technology products into multi-billion-dollar businesses.

With his extensive experience in senior leadership roles at Microsoft, Ganesh’s focus lies on translating cutting-edge reinforcement learning tech into real-world systems that optimize critical infrastructure. With RL Core, he is building mission-driven teams and delivering transformational impact through innovative technology.

Martha White

CTO & Co-Founder

Martha is an internationally recognized leader in reinforcement learning for industrial process optimization. She is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, Principal Investigator at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and Director of the Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Alberta.

Named as one of AI's 10 to Watch by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Martha excels at developing practical and effective algorithms with deep theoretical and empirical support.

Adam White

CSO & Co-Founder

Adam has worked in reinforcement learning and AI for over 20 years. He is an associate professor at the University of Alberta, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair, the Scientific Director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and a former research scientist with Google DeepMind.

Adam is passionate about the application of sound empirical practices and algorithm assessment to successfully move reinforcement learning algorithms out of the lab and into the real world. His research is focused on understanding the fundamental principles of learning in young human, animals, and agents.