Nandini Ramanan
Principal Data Scientist
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNandini Ramanan is a Principal Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building interpretable, probabilistic ML models that bridge research and production, currently driving anomaly detection for firewall service metrics at Palo Alto Networks. She combines a strong academic foundation—a PhD candidate and prior research roles at UTD and Indiana University—with hands-on industry impact, moving models from prototype to customer-facing systems. Her specialty is efficient algorithms for relational, large-scale data and statistical relational learning, informed by a publication record and patented work. Early work includes a high-accuracy ML approach to early cyber threat prediction during a Palo Alto Networks internship, and research contributions span causal Bayesian networks, functional gradient boosting, and human-in-the-loop concept learning. Based in Mountain View, she blends deep probabilistic modeling with practical feature engineering and domain expert knowledge to improve operational efficiency. Colleagues describe her as a researcher-practitioner who consistently translates complex probabilistic methods into scalable, interpretable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor’s Degree Computer science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer science and Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreMaster’s Degree Informatics, Master’s Degree Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (15)
statistical-learning9
statistical-relational-learning9
srl9
relational7
artificial-intelligence7
machine-learning7
machine-learning-algorithms7
gradient6
jekyll-theme5
jquery5
jekyll5
boosting4
gradient-boosting2
deep-learning1
perception1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nandhiniramanan5/RLR_Boost
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
nandhiniramanan5/Classifiers-implemented
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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