Marvels who excel in the field of AI are many. Over the years, we have witnessed and celebrated several women who have been creating an impact in the AI sphere. Alongside, there are some women, who conquered the AI zone after stepping into it from other fields and marked their signature in the enhancement of AI. While celebrating women’s day this month, let us talk about 5 such amazing women who were mere outsiders, but has transformed themselves as the luminaries of the AI world.
Abhilasha Purwar:
Abhilasha Purwar was a Full-bright scholar and an alumnus of Yale and IIT. In the initial years of her professional career, she was a Research Associate at J-PAL. She worked with the Ministry of Environment in India, built flexible solar cells in Dublin and functioned for kickstarting solar products and clean energy investments. Her projects inspired her to act for the protection of our environment, and thus she founded Blue Sky as a focal point of enabling global climate action with high quality, accessible environmental data.
Anuja Ranjan:
Anuja Ranjan is a postgraduate from the Delhi School of Economics. She was introduced to statistical modelling and predictive analytics right from college. In the initial days of her career, she was employed at rest analytics. Moving afore, at her employment at Fractal analytics, she is leading a consulting team as a Client Partner, Financial Services looking into customer market analytics in payments and Banking.
Rama Devi Lanka:
Rama Devi Lanka moved to Silicon Valley to work in startups. She was a civil engineer who worked on high-end technologies such as speech and voice. After coming back to India, she worked within the government and similar organisations that used technologies to help governments, following which she concentrated her expertise in emerging technologies. She started as a one-women army crossing the hurdles of finances and lack of workforce to support her projects. Rama Devi Lanka who currently holds the position of the Director of emerging technology for Telangana state has made tremendous contributions in building a technology-favoured ecosystem in India.
Srikripa Srinivasan:
With an experience of 25 years as a finance professional, Srikripa Srinivasan has been responsible for roles ranging from core audit in Big 4s to FMCG sales and marketing, manufacturing, core sales in Finance and IT. Initially, she was an economics scholar by profession. From audio basics, accounting and reporting, operations and finance, compliance and investigations, she currently holds the position of Vice President at Dell Global Analytics. Her goal to seek intelligence out of data drove her towards opting data and charted accountancy.
Sattwati Kundu:
Sattwati Kundu is an IIT KGP graduate in Geological Sciences. She has been deeply involved in data analytics and predictive modelling since she passed out from IIT in 2006. She stepped into the role of Petrophysicist when she joined the oil and gas industry in the initial days of her career. She began her journey during a time when the definition of AI was different from the present day. She intended to keep up with the latest advancements in the field of Deep Learning that drove her towards AI. Working at IBM, she has been responsible not only for innovating and delivering AI solutions as a hands-on data scientist in IBM IoT offering IBM-TRIRIGA, but also for leading a global team of data scientists across various other IoT offerings. She led multiple AI evangelising efforts across IBM and the Labs and participated in IBM’s community initiative like contributing to the designing of the IBM-CBSE AI curriculum.
Source: indiaai.gov.in
