Sridhar Palle, PhD, MBA

Sridhar Palle, PhD, MBA has a varied work experience. Since 2019, they have been the Director/Sr. Data Scientist at iCubeCSI, where they are responsible for strategy, planning, development, and execution of data science solutions for diverse types of clients. Sridhar also identifies opportunities for business growth and novel product ideas that can be developed through machine learning advancements. From 2018 to 2019, they were the Technical Director/Data Science Consultant at Emory Continuing Education's Consort Institute, where they were responsible for the development, technical management, teaching, and successful delivery of diverse programs. From 2016 to 2018, they were an Assistant Professor (LT) at Kennesaw State University. From 2009 to 2016, they were a Sr. Computational Research Scientist at Jackson State University, where they were the chief researcher for computational modeling of Micro and Nanofluidics. From 2007 to 2009, they were a Sr. CAE Analytics Engineer at Delphi Automotive Systems, where they were the primary lead for CFD analysis of Occupant Protection System Components. From 2006 to 2007, they were a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they reviewed the implementation of real gas models. From 2002 to 2006, they were a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at Clemson University, where they worked on numerical simulation of combustion and instructed undergraduate students in the usage of solid modeling packages. From 2000 to 2002, they were a Research Assistant at the University of Mississippi, where they worked on thermal management of high density electronic modules.

Sridhar Palle has a diverse educational background. Sridhar obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University in 2000, followed by an MS in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Computational Fluid Dynamics from the University of Mississippi in 2002. Sridhar then completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Computational Combustion and High Performance Computing from Clemson University in 2006. In 2019, they obtained an MBA in Business Administration and Management from Jackson State University. Additionally, they have several certifications, including Convolution Neural Networks and Sequence Models from Coursera Course Certificates in 2019, Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization from deeplearning.ai in 2018, Neural Networks and Deep Learning from deeplearning.ai in 2018, Analytics Edge from MITx on edX in 2016, and Machine Learning from Stanford University in 2016.