Recording of an excellent talk by Ms Goda Ramkumar sharing with us her own journey and career in Operations Research and Analytics. The title of the talk is “Applications of Optimization in Business”. The talk was part of the IEOR Symposium 2024 held on 24 April 2024 at VMCC, IIT Bombay.
About speaker: Ms. Goda Ramkumar, Vice President of Data Science at Swiggy focusing on Driver, Delivery, Maps and Supply Chain space. She has experience in building machine learning and optimisation based decision support systems for complex business challenges spanning hyperlocal delivery, airline pricing, revenue management, ride sharing, mobility and insurance. Prior to this, she was General Manager, Data Science at xto10x establishing data science journey and practice in the start-up ecosystem. Previously she was at Ola for 2 years as Principal Data Scientist where she led the machine learning and optimization algorithms behind pricing and matching. She worked at Sabre for 10 years before Ola on a variety of problems in Airline Pricing and Revenue Management. She holds an undergraduate and masters degree from IIT Madras. she has several publications and presentations in industry journals and academic conferences.