About

Lavanya Tekumalla is a highly experienced AI/ML Consulting Scientist with over 15 years of industry experience in various roles at Amazon, InMobi, Myntra, and Kenome. She also has 5+ years of collaborative research experience during and after her PhD in Machine Learning at IISc, where she worked with NetApp, Xerox, and IBM. Lavanya is currently working as a Machine Learning Consulting Scientist at aifonic labs, where she focuses on providing high-value consulting to build AI-based products for startups and enterprises. Lavanya has a broad array of knowledge in techniques related to machine learning and NLP, and she has a lot of expertise in topics such as probabilistic modeling and inference. She has also consulted with several startups and has worked on projects related to corporate and leadership ML upskilling for enterprise customers. In addition to her current role, Lavanya has worked as a Consulting Product & ML Scientist at Kenome, a core AI company that employs state-of-the-art machine learning, deep learning, and natural language understanding techniques to build enterprise knowledge graphs out of unstructured data. At Kenome, Lavanya worked on several products, including KENOME SmartOrder, SmartAudit, SmartRec, and SmartSense, which help enterprises with sales orders, revenue audit leads, personalized recommendations, and customer sentiment analysis. Lavanya is also the founder of machinelearninginterview.com, a data science interview prep platform that offers a multi-dimensional assessment-based learning platform to help revise ML concepts, tools to improve technical communication of data science concepts, and tools to simulate the experience of a mock interview to help candidates face their interviews with confidence. Lavanya holds a PhD in Machine Learning from IISc, an MS in Computer Science (Computer Graphics Emphasis) from the University of Utah, and a BE (Bachelor of Engineering) in Computer Science and Engineering from Osmania University College of Engineering. She also completed her 12th grade from Ratna Junior College. Lavanya's tech stack includes ML, AI, Research Scientist, NLP, Search, Deep Learning, and Data Scientist. With 13.11 years of relevant experience, Lavanya is a highly skilled and knowledgeable AI/ML professional who enjoys solving high-impact problems for startups and enterprises.