About

Usha Rengaraju is a Chief Data Scientist, Polymath, and Founder of NeuroAI, with over 10 years of industry experience. She is the World's first women triple Kaggle Grandmaster and specializes in Deep Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models. Usha is a unicorn data scientist with strong foundations in Economics, Finance, Business Foundations, Business Analytics, and Psychology. Ranked as a top ten Data Scientist in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine, top ten women data scientists by Analytics Insight magazine for 2021, and top 150 AI Leaders and Influencers by 3AI magazine, Usha is a highly sought-after speaker and workshop presenter. She has been a guest speaker at multiple corporates and universities across the globe, including the Women in Data Science conference at Stanford University in 2021, PyConf Hyderabad in 2022, and Indo Data Week. Usha is the winner of the "ML in Action" competition organized by the ML Developer programs team at Google and her team won first place in WiDS 2022 Datathon organized by Stanford University. She is also the winner of Kaggle ML Research spotlight for 2022 and winner of TensorFlow Community Spotlight 2023. Usha is currently the Chief of Research at Exa Protocol, where she works on research problems in the interface of cybersecurity and AI. She has previously worked as a Data Science Consultant at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc. and as a Principal Data Scientist at MCG. Usha is an Advisory Board Member at CAIRE Research Lab and a Module Expert for Probabilistic Graphical Models at Upgrad, where she developed the course curriculum for Bayesian Networks and Markov Random Fields. She also developed the curriculum for the masters program in Data Science for BITS Pilani, which is consumed by 20,000+ students. Usha holds several degrees and specializations from prestigious universities, including Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of California-Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, IBM Cognitive Class, the University of Edinburgh, and the Wharton School. She has a strong tech stack in Research Science, Data Science, ML, AI, Deep Learning, NLP, and TensorFlow. In addition to her professional achievements, Usha is also a champion athlete and has represented Tamil Nadu in National games twice. She is also an Autism Advocate, and she organized the Neurodiversity India Summit, India's first-ever conference