Adhish Prasoon

About Adhish Prasoon

I am a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. I have been working in Machine Learning, Data Science and related areas since 2007 and have been managing high performance Data Science teams since 2017. I am currently working as Research Director, Data Science at Flipkart. Before joining Flipkart, I worked as Senior Vice President in Data Science at Info Edge India where I was leading and managing a team of Data Scientists to find solutions for critical business problems for Naukri.com, Jeevantsathi.com and 99acres.com. Previously, I led some important and challenging Machine Learning Projects for Mobileum Inc. and Samsung Research. I have a Masters in Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. During my masters, I received DAAD scholarship and worked on my M.Tech project at Computer Vision and Remote Sensing Group of Technical University of Berlin, Germany for a period of 9 months. After finishing my masters, and before joining my Ph.D, I worked as a Research Scientist at Core Projects and Technologies for approximately 2.5 years. During my stint at Core Projects and Technologies I was chosen to be a part of the team sent to get trained at Centre of Higher Learning, Stennis Space Centre, NASA, USA for a period of 1 year.

Experience

1. Research Director - Data Science

   Flipkart

   Jul 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  M. Tech, Image Analysis, Image Processing and Computer Vision

  2007

• Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen

  Ph.D., Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Image Analysis

  2013

• Technische Universität Berlin

  DAAD Scholarship, Computer Vision and Image Processing

  2007