Usha is a polymath and India’s first woman Kaggle Grandmaster. Has strong foundations in Economics, Finance, Business Foundations, Business Analytics, and Psychology with 7 years of technical experience working in various companies like Infosys, Temenos, NeoEYED, Infinite Sum Modelling and MCG. She leads several communities like Women in Machine Learning and Data Science(WiMLDS – Bangalore and Mysore Chapter), TensorFlow User Group (TFUG Mysore ) and Women in Data Science Ambassador(WiDS Mysore). She organized NeuroAI (www.neuroai.in) which is India’s first-ever research symposium in the interface of Neuroscience and Data Science. She spoke at various conferences like ODSC, Pycon India, Indo Data Week, and GHCI. She specializes in Probabilistic Graphical Models, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. She has prepared curriculum for BITS Pilani’s masters in Data Science program (consumed by 20,000+ students ) and Upgrad’s PGP program in DS(consumed by 10,000+ students)