Surya Kocherlakota is Head of Data Science at CricViz, leading analytics across performance, broadcast, and media with six years of industry experience. He combines sports-focused product science and ML engineering, having driven player recruitment strategy for the Rajasthan Royals during a period that included a finals appearance and strong league performance. His background spans applied AI in healthcare forecasting for the NHS and embedded ML optimization taught at Oxford, reflecting a mix of high-impact product work and technical depth. Trained in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College London, he is comfortable from microcontrollers and IMU data collection to large-scale analytics pipelines. Surya brings a practical, results-oriented approach to modeling and productization, often translating complex models into decisions that win matches and inform broadcasters. He is based in London and known for bridging research, engineering and domain expertise in cricket analytics.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College London
A small Python package for estimating & plotting Bayesian hierarchical models for player-level football data
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