Rutu Mulkar-Mehta

Dr. Rutu Mulkar-Mehta is a professor at Northeastern University in Seattle and is the founder and CEO of Ticary Solutions – a Natural Language Processing based consultancy in Seattle. She has extensive experience and expertise in Information Extraction, Topic Modeling, Recommender Systems, Word Semantics, and Machine Learning. She has worked in industries including

healthcare, social media, email, marketing, amongst others.

Rutu started out as a Computer Engineer and later got her Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science from University of Southern California (USC). She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the San Diego

Supercomputer Center, at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and has worked with several startups and government agencies through the years.