Bharath Kumar Bolla

Associate Director (Data Science) | Regulated GenAI Platforms | LLMOps, Evaluation, Governance | Commercial AI | Agent AI | Products | Speaker | Author40 under 40 Data Scientist (2022)

Role
Associate Director -data Science (Ddit-mlops) at Novartis
Location
Hyderabad, TG, IN
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About Bharath Kumar Bolla

I lead applied AI and GenAI initiatives that convert ambiguous business problems into reliable, measurable product outcomes, especially in regulated and high-stakes environments.At Novartis in International Commercial, I lead projects across traditional machine learning and generative AI to improve how teams understand customers, prioritize work, and execute at scale. I partner closely with business, product, engineering, and governance stakeholders to ensure solutions are usable, auditable, and scalable.Previously at Salesforce, I built ML and NLP systems that shipped into enterprise products. I developed an enterprise recommendation system for Salesforce AppExchange that delivered a 5 to 10 percent lift in click-through and conversion rates and contributed to revenue growth. I also built LLM powered topic and sentiment analytics on NPS verbatim feedback to translate customer voice into actionable decisions for product leaders.I bring a product leadership mindset informed by my MBA, alongside a research oriented approach that helps me stay current with rapidly evolving AI capabilities. I enjoy complex cross functional problems where success depends on both strong modeling and strong product judgment, including tradeoffs, adoption, governance, and long term scalability.My focus areas include regulated GenAI and LLMOps, NLP, recommender systems, evaluation and monitoring, product analytics, and decision intelligence.

Experience

  1. Associate Director -data Science (Ddit-mlops)

    Novartis

    May 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

    Lead cross-functional AI and GenAI initiatives in international commercial analytics, translating customer/business problems into production-grade solutions.Drive end-to-end delivery across problem framing, modeling, evaluation, deployment, and adoption—partnering with business, product, engineering, and governance stakeholders.Build scalable analytics and GenAI workflows that improve insight generation and decision-making while operating under privacy/compliance constraints.Establish reusable components and operating practices (evaluation, monitoring, documentation) to improve reliability and speed of delivery.

Education

  • Praxis Business School

    Post Graduate Program, Data Science

    2018 — 2019

  • Institute of Product Leadership

    Executive MBA, Product Management, Go to Market, Strategy, Leadership

  • Emory University

    Graduate Course Work in Statistics, Public Health

    2015 — 2016

  • Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

    Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology

    2002 — 2006

  • Kennesaw State University

    Master’s Degree, Applied Statistics

    2016 — 2017

  • University of Arizona

    Master of Science - MS, Data Science

    2023

  • Mississippi State University

    M.S, Life Sciences

    2007 — 2009

Skills

  • In Vivo
  • Genomics
  • In Vitro

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