Varun Badrinath Krishna

Meet Varun Badrinath Krishna, a Data Science Manager at C3.ai with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With expertise in energy management, healthcare, industrial systems reliability, CRM, and fraud detection, Varun leads a team of intelligent data scientists in designing, developing, and integrating machine learning and deep learning models into large-scale AI applications used by Fortune 500 companies. With exceptional skills in converting business requirements into machine learning objectives, Varun collaborates with clients to develop high-value products using the latest machine learning and deep learning research developments.

Varun's impressive background includes a seed-funding award from the Siebel Energy Institute in 2015, winning Best Paper awards at QEST 2015 and CRITIS 2015, and induction into the Siebel Scholars Class of 2018 for academic, research, and leadership excellence in energy sciences. Furthermore, he completed summer internships at global tech leaders such as ABB Corporate Research Center, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Cisco Systems Inc., and C3 IoT while in graduate school. His work at IBM Research even led to two U.S. patents on which he is listed as the primary inventor.

With a background in computer engineering, technology entrepreneurship, and professional courses in technology, entrepreneurship, and computer science, Varun is quickly becoming a sought-after expert in the data science world. As a former graduate research assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and software engineer at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), Varun's expertise is rooted in a deep understanding of computer science and engineering. However, his experience in technology entrepreneurship and leadership roles as the former lead data scientist and data science manager at C3.ai also sets him apart as a versatile and dynamic leader in the data science industry.