Smitha Ganesh

Software Engineering Manager

ThoughtWorks

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 strive 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, advanced analytics, document sanitization, computer vision, image / video analytics, time-series analysis. She also has keen interest and proficiency in text analytics. 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.