Varun Badrinath Krishna

UIUC , 2018
Ph.D. , Energy Science
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About

Dr. Varun Badrinath Krishna is a Senior Manager, Data Science at C3 AI and leads the design, development, and integration of machine learning and deep learning models in enterprise applications, such as energy management, CRM, health care, fraud detection, and industrial systems reliability. Those models run in large-scale production AI applications that are used by Fortune 500 enterprises. He is also a manager of a team of 7+ data scientists. Varun got his Ph.D in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He was advised by Prof. William H. Sanders, who is the current Dean of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His thesis work explored data-driven methods to improve energy resource utilization, meter fraud detection, and cyber-resilience in modern power grids. His research papers can be found on his Google Scholar profile.

Education

UIUC

Ph.D. , Energy Science

Class of 2018

Awards & Publications

2015 Siebel Energy Institute Seed Funding Award
2015 Best Paper Award, 12th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST).
2015 Best Paper Award, 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructure Security (CRITIS).
2017 Rambus Computer Engineering Fellowship
2018 ECE Alumni Endowment Research Award
2018 Varun Badrinath Krishna, Younghun Kim, Tarun Kumar, Wander S. Wadman, Kevin W. Warren. Reducing curtailment of wind power generation (using power curve mappings). US Patent Grant US10041475B1

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