INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE
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Vijay Kotu

Vijay Kotu is the Senior Vice President of Analytics at ServiceNow. He leads the implementation of large-scale data platforms and services to support the company's enterprise business. He has led analytics organizations for over a decade with focus on data strategy, business intelligence, machine learning, experimentation, engineering, enterprise adoption, and building analytics talent. Prior to joining ServiceNow, he was Vice President of Analytics at Yahoo. He worked at Life Technologies and Adteractive where he led marketing analytics, created algorithms to optimize online purchasing behavior, and developed data platforms to manage marketing campaigns. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery and a member of the Advisory Board at RapidMiner.
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Bala Deshpande PhD

Dr.  Deshpande  has  extensive  experience  in  working  with  companies  ranging from  startups  to  Fortune  5  in  fields  ranging  from automotive,  aerospace, retail,  food,  and  manufacturing  verticals  delivering  business  analysis;  design-ing  and  developing  custom  data products  for  implementing  business  intelligence,  data  science,  and  predictive  analytics  solutions.  He  was  the  Founder  of SimaFore,  a predictive  analytics  consulting  company  which  was  acquired  by Soliton  Inc.,  a  provider  of  testing  solutions  for  the  semiconductor industry. He  was  also  the  Founding  Co-chair  of  the  annual  Predictive  Analytics  World-Manufacturing  conference.  In  his  professional career  he  has  worked  with Ford  Motor  Company  on  their  product  development,  with  IBM  at  their  IBM Watson  Center  of Competence,  and  with  Domino’s  Pizza  leading  their  data  science  and  artificial  intelligence  groups.  He  has  a  Ph.D.  from  Carnegie Mellon and  an  MBA  from  Ross  School  of  Business,  Michigan.
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