Dr Jithin K Sreedharan

Machine Learning Scientist

Dr. Jithin K. Sreedharan is a Senior Data Scientist for the core recommendations team at The Home Depot, the largest home improvement retailer in the United States. He was a full-time Assistant Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, IIT Kanpur. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he worked as a Machine Learning Scientist at Wadhwani AI — AI for Social Impact, funded by and partnered with Google.org, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, and WHO. Previously he was an NSF postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Science of Information and Dept. of Computer Science at Purdue University. He received his Ph.D. from INRIA, France, with a fellowship from INRIA-Bell Labs joint lab, and his M.S. from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore with the best masters thesis award. His current work and research focus on machine learning and deep learning — recommendation systems, graph representation learning, and AI for Social Good applications. His results have been presented and published at leading venues in machine learning.

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