Hrishikesh leads the Data Science charter at Myntra. Being a seasoned technology leader, he has been working in the ML space for almost two decades and has previously held leadership positions
at companies like IBM, Amazon and Intuit, among others. His areas of expertise lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and Very Large Scale Discrete Optimization.
He has published in international conferences like SIGIR, NAACL, KDD, Informs Conference on Business Analytics and possesses a keen interest in the systems aspects of ML with focus on ML
models that can serve internet scale traffic at low latency. He believes that building large, high performing ML teams requires an approach distinct from managing other functions and he actively
contributes to the practice in this area. On the academic front, Hrishikesh holds a Master’s degree from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management
(IIM), Kozhikode.
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