Hema Pradhiksha Dhanapal

Data Scientist @Akamai Technologies

Boston, MA, US

Innovated Agentic AI detection with LLM behavioral research, institutionalized as ground truth across Akamai, and scaled into an ML fingerprinting model to classify agentic activity in HTTP sessions. Led analysis of ML-only detections using a PySpark pipeline processing 10B+ rows/hour through both ML and production regex rules (ASE), iteratively strengthening production accuracy and reliability. Partnered with researchers, engineers, and architects to solve open-ended business problems, aligning on metrics, translating into analytical solutions, and scaling them through ML experimentation. Owned end-to-end NLP development using BERT to map known vulnerabilities to unseen anomalies, improving accuracy and reducing runtime by 85%.

University of Connecticut

Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics and Project Management

Coimbatore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science