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.
Ph.D. , Energy Science
Class of 2018