I have over 12 years of experience in the field of analytics, machine learning, and optimization. - Expertise in developing advanced analytics, Big Data Analytics, machine learning, and reinforcement learning solutions and algorithms - Leading Watson Analytics deployment across GTS in IBM - Application areas in energy, water, healthcare, telecommunication, IT - Published in top peer-reviewed journals and conferences. - Gave over 28 talks in national and international conferences - Conducted several corporate trainings in Watson Analytics, Text Analytics, Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, and Statistics - Expertise in designing courses and teaching/training students in Probabilistic Operations research, Decision Making under Uncertainty, Statistical Analysis, Operations Analysis and Production Control.

Practice Head (Data Science & Engineering) IT Operations Analytics @ I currently head the Data Science and Big Data Analytics team in IT Operations Analytics (ITOA) at IBM. I am also one of the global leaders for deploying Watson Analytics within the GTS business unit at IBM. I work on Big Data Analytics challenges in the domain of IT infrastructure data, IoT data, Industrial Data, and machine log data, etc. Our goal is to: - Predict problems before they become service impacting - Search quickly across all operation data sources for faster problem resolution I use advanced statistical learning and data mining techniques to learn about a business' IT systems behavior over time. We use advanced text analytics for insights from structured and unstructured data sources (service tickets, performance metrics and support documents), and develop custom machine learning, data mining, and time series algorithms to make predictions. From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Bengaluru Area, IndiaProfessor of Practice, Industrial Engineering @ Designing and delivering a completely online course in Advanced Engineering Analytics. http://www.usf.edu/engineering/imse/people/professors-of-practice.aspx From May 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Senior Data Scientist @ From 2013 to December 2014 (1 year) Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering (Operations Research focus) @ From August 2009 to October 2013 (4 years 3 months) Doctoral Researcher @ From May 2005 to July 2009 (4 years 3 months) Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaDatabase Marketing Analyst Intern @ From October 2004 to May 2005 (8 months) Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida AreaTeaching Assistant & Graduate Researcher @ From August 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 2 months) Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering @ University of South Florida From 2005 to 2009 Master of Science (M.S.), Industrial Engineering @ University of South Florida From 2002 to 2005 B.E., Industrial Engineering, First Class with Distinction @ Visvesvaraya Technological University From 1998 to 2002