Summary
Jithin Sreedharan is a Senior Data/Applied Scientist with a decade of experience blending rigorous research and production ML, currently driving add-to-cart recommendation modules at The Home Depot. He holds a PhD in computer science and a strong publication record across ICML, KDD, WWW, SIGMETRICS and Nature Reports, reflecting deep expertise in graph mining, statistical modeling, and explainable feature selection. His career bridges academia and impact-driven engineering—from an assistant professorship at IIT Kanpur and postdoctoral work at Purdue to leading ML teams at Wadhwani AI where his group won the Outstanding Paper Award at NeurIPS ML4H for TB treatment adherence. He has built end-to-end solutions spanning data ingestion, feature engineering, algorithm development, and offline/online evaluation, and led teams deploying cough-based and adherence-prediction systems at national scale in India. Based in Seattle, he combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on product delivery and a track record of translating graph- and network-science research into deployable ML systems. An often-overlooked strength is his history of producing open-source libraries and interdisciplinary collaborations that accelerated adoption of his research in both industry and global health contexts.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (Engineering) by Research, Dept. of Electrical Communication of Engineering (Statistics - quickest detection and time series), Best M.S. thesis medal - Prof. F. M. Mowdawalla medal, Master of Science (Engineering) by Research, Dept. of Electrical Communication of Engineering (Statistics - quickest detection and time series), Best M.S. thesis medal - Prof. F. M. Mowdawalla medal at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First class with distinction, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Communications Engineering, First class with distinction at Govt. Model Engineering College, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science (network science, statistical modelling and inference, and data mining), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science (network science, statistical modelling and inference, and data mining) at Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France