Principal Data Scientist
AT&T Foundry
Rishiraj Pravahan is a Principal Data Scientist working at the AT&T Foundry. Prior to joining AT&T. Rishiraj worked for the ATLAS experiment at CERN as a PhD student and a post doctoral fellow. While at CERN, he worked on constructing, commissioning and calibrating the ATLAS detector as well as on software techniques to analyze the massive dataset from the Large Hadron Collider to search for new physics.
He has also been a passionate teacher and advocate for science through public talks and seminars in the US, Europe, India and Latin America. He has been collaborating with Udacity to produce content toward a nano degree in data science. His current work involves, understanding distributed systems, networks, privacy and security of customer data, collection, storage and analysis of sensor data and making advances in the frontiers of statistics and machine learning.