Krishna Sankar

Krishna Sankar is an AI Data Scientist with Volvo Cars focusing on autonomous vehicles. Previously he was a Chief Data Scientist at blackarrow.tv, where he was focusing on optimizing user experience via inference, intelligence & interfaces. Earlier stints include Principal architect/Data Scientist/Tata America Intl, Director of Data Science/Bioinformatics startup & as a Distinguished Engineer/Cisco. He has been speaking at various conferences (ML tutorials at Strata SJC & LON 2016, Spark Summit [http://goo.gl/ab30lD], Strata-Sparkcamp, OSCON, Pycon & Pydata) about predicting NFL [http://goo.gl/QCpaO8], Spark[http://goo.gl/E4kqMD], Data Science [http://goo.gl/9pyJMH], Machine Learning [http://goo.gl/SXF53n], Social media Analysis [http://goo.gl/D9YpVQ] as well as has been guest lecturing at the Naval Postgraduate School. His occasional blogs can be found at doubleclix.wordpress.com[https://goo.gl/x6bdb0]. His other passion is Lego Robotics – you will find him at the St.Louis FLL World Competition as Robots Design Judge