Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Vikas is currently serving as the Vice President of Machine Learning at Exactech since 2023. Prior to this, they held the position of Vice President, Research & ML at Advata from 2021 to 2023. Vikas also worked as a Principal Data Scientist/ML Innovation Lead and ML Engineering Lead at KenSci from 2020 to 2021, and 2019 to 2020 respectively. Before that, they served as a Data Scientist at KenSci from 2017 to 2019.

Vikas Kumar started their career as a Research Assistant at Grouplens Research from 2011 to 2017, where they worked on their thesis titled "Exploring the Balance Between Novelty and Familiarity in Recommendation Systems." Vikas also gained research experience as a Research Intern at Google in 2016 and as an Intern Scientist at Yahoo! Research Labs in 2015. Additionally, they worked as a Research Intern at Saavn in 2013.

Furthermore, Vikas Kumar has experience in software development and engineering. Vikas worked as a Software Development Engineer in NLP at InsideView from 2010 to 2011, where they implemented NLP techniques and record linkage methodologies for entity matching. Vikas also served as a Software Engineer at Microsoft from 2008 to 2010, where they contributed to automation suites and led the team in developing an automation framework.

Overall, Vikas Kumar has a strong background in machine learning, data science, research, and software development, with extensive experience in leadership roles.

Vikas Kumar earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela from 2004 to 2008. Later, from 2011 to 2013, they pursued their Master's Degree in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. Vikas then continued their education at the same university and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science from 2011 to 2017.