Bio

I’m a Staff Data Scientist in the Personalization team at Walmart Global Tech. I graduated with a PhD in Computational Math from Stanford University, where I was advised by Lei Xing from Stanford School of Medicine with Yinyu Ye as my departmental advisor. During PhD, I also worked with James Zou on the reporting quality of COVID-19 data. My thesis focused on Data Representations and Data Quality in the context of Machine Learning and Healthcare. Here is the dedication and acknowledgements section of my thesis.

I obtained a Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, where I was advised by David Gleich from the Department of Computer Science. My research at that time focused on best rank-1 approximations in the 1-norm. Before Purdue, I obtained a Bachelor’s in Electronics and Communication from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore.

In the past I was mentored by the British mathematician Tim Poston and the computer scientist Ahmed Sameh.

Personal: I spend most of my time with my wife Aswathy Radhakrishnan. My brother Siddarth Vasudevan is a scientist working at the interface of physics and chemistry after completing his PhD in Materials Science from ETH Zurich. Siddarth and I mostly discuss topics like matrix factorization.