Soma S Dhavala
Director, Machine Learning, Wadhwani AI
Soma’s interests are at the convergence of technology, science and applications for social good. He is passionate about building an ecosystem to democratize AI, make it inclusive, accessible, equitable, and normalizing technology. Soma has diverse research interests in Agriculture, Healthcare, Transportation, EdTech, among others. No theory without code, and no code without theory – summarizes his principled approach towards applied research. At Wadhwani Institute for AI, he is responsible for delivering value using ML.
Soma obtained his Ph.D (Texas A & M University, 2010) in Statistics where he worked on applying Bayesian Nonparametrics to systems biology, and has a Masters (IIT-Madras, 2000) in EE, Masters in Applied Mathematics (University of Washington, 2022) and a B.E (SRKREC, Andhra University, 1997) in ECE. He also worked as a post-doc for close to a year in the area of Dynamical Systems at TAMU. He has over 25+ publications and multiple patents.