Smitha is an experienced data scientist, with 14+ years of industry experience and
proven track record of leading, designing and developing solutions to enable
businesses achieve their $MM productivity. She has a master’s degree in structural
engineering from VTU and has earlier worked with GM and GE on simulations and
machine learning techniques. Excellent publication record including a patent
alongside. Good organizational and analytical skills, strives to build knowledge base
and drives change through innovative thinking and strategic initiatives. She has a
strong domain expertise in industries such as aviation, oil & gas and automotive. Her
technical expertise is on feature extraction, classification, supervised/unsupervised
learning, statistical modelling & time series forecast. She has strong interests in
applied machine learning- pattern recognition, document sanitization, time-series
analysis and anomaly detection. She is also working with few of the universities in
helping them align their curriculum to current data science trends. Currently a
Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, India and is working on projects that help
clients become AI mature.