Vani Mandava

Biography
Vani Mandava is a Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research at Redmond with over a decade of experience designing and shipping software that in use by millions of users across the world. She is passionate about enabling academic researchers and institutions develop technologies that fuel data-intensive scientific research using advanced techniques in data management, data mining, especially leveraging Microsoft cloud and AI platform.
She has enabled the adoption of data mining best practices in various v1 products across Microsoft client, server and services in Office, Sharepoint and Online Services (Bing Ads) organizations, co-authored a book ‘Developing Solutions with Infopath’, and hold patents in online services architecture. She co-chaired KDD Cup 2013 and partners with many academic and government agencies including NSF funded Big Data Innovation hub effort, a consortium coordinated by top US data scientists and expected to advance data-driven innovation nationally in the US.
She has enabled the adoption of data mining best practices in various v1 products across Microsoft client, server and services in Office, Sharepoint and Online Services (Bing Ads) organizations, co-authored a book ‘Developing Solutions with Infopath’, and hold patents in online services architecture. She co-chaired KDD Cup 2013 and partners with many academic and government agencies including NSF funded Big Data Innovation hub effort, a consortium coordinated by top US data scientists and expected to advance data-driven innovation nationally in the US.
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