Srujana Merugu — CEO
Solving problems requires humility, empathy, and perseverance. It demands a willingness to learn, adapt, and look beyond technology as a silver bullet. This has been my primary learning as a technologist working with a diverse set of people on research, designing systems, building teams, teaching, social causes, and entrepreneurial efforts. My professional journey includes: • Nearly two decades of experience solving large-scale data science problems in the internet, enterprise, and e-commerce domains as part of the premier ML groups at corporate research labs. • Research experience with publications in top machine learning venues such as KDD, ICML, SDM, CIKM, & ICDM with multiple best paper awards. • Over five years of consulting practice on data science strategy, setting up data science teams and processes. Focused engagements with multiple startups and non-profit organizations in education, healthcare, CRM, SaaS, and Fintech domains. • Experience working with government agencies as part of multi-organization collaborative initiatives related to COVID-19 response and national digital health. • ML Application Domains: Information retrieval, Recommendation systems, Information extraction, Record linkage, Fraud detection, Credit risk analysis, Time series forecasting, Collaborative knowledge management systems. • Current Research Interests: Control of dynamical systems, ML for health, Modeling human behavior, Platform economics and evolution, Data privacy & economics, Equitable assessment and allocation.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a data science expert with extensive experience in healthcare and e-commerce sectors.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 20 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science
Career Highlights
- Nearly two decades of experience in data science.
- Research publications in top machine learning venues.
- Consulting practice focused on data science strategy.
Work Experience
Amazon
Principal Scientist (4 yrs 7 mos)
Google Research
ML Researcher (Consultant) (1 yr 1 mo)
Wadhwani AI
ML Researcher (Consultant) (1 yr 2 mos)
COVID-19 Data Science Consortium
Research Lead (Volunteer) (1 yr 7 mos)
CuspEra
Chief Scientist (9 mos)
EkStep Foundation
Data Scientist (Volunteer) (6 mos)
Flipkart
Principal Data Scientist/ Consultant (1 yr 1 mo)
Self-employed
ML Consultant (6 yrs 1 mo)
Amazon.com
Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist (2 yrs 8 mos)
IBM Research, India
Senior Research Scientist (2 yrs 5 mos)
Yahoo! Research
Research Scientist (3 yrs 7 mos)
IBM
Intern at T.J. Watson Research Center (3 mos)
Intern at Almaden Research Center (3 mos)
FICO
Research Intern (3 mos)
HNC Software
Intern (3 mos)
Education
Ph.D. at The University of Texas at Austin
M.S. at The University of Texas at Austin
B.Tech at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Mathematics at Institute of Mathematical Sciences & National Board of Higher Math, Madras, India.