Dr. Shailesh Kumar

After a track-record of career success in Yahoo, Google and OLA, and in between a short stint of entrepreneurial experience of co-founding a company in the Edutech domain (ThirdLeap Inc.), Shailesh Kumar moved to Reliance Jio as Chief Data Scientist, and as Programme Mentor in the Jio Institute, in the domain of in AI/ML and data sciences. His bonding with the academics is very strong. He is a visiting faculty in Machine Learning, in the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad. A BTech graduate from Banaras Hindu University, he did his Masters in AI/ML in University of Texas and Ph.D in the same university in Data Analytics. He has published over 20 international papers and book chapters and holds more than 20 patents in AI/ML. He was recognized as one of the top 10 data scientists in India in 2015 by Analytics India Magazine. His areas of specialisation include: Information Retrieval, Enterprise Search, Legal E-Discovery, Natural Language Understanding (Phrase Discovery, Word Sense Disambiguation), Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph Mining, Conversation Modelling, and Deep Learning on Text and Vision. His experience of creating AI-based solutions ranges multiple domains including finance, remote sensing, retail, knowledge graph, conversational computing and computer vision. More