Vani Mandava
Director, Data Science Outreach
About
Vani Mandava is a Director of Data Science at Microsoft Research at Redmond with over a decade of experience in engineering teams designing and shipping software that in use by millions of users across the world. She is passionate about enabling academic researchers and institutions develop technologies that fuel data-intensive scientific research using advanced techniques in data management, data mining, especially leveraging Microsoft cloud and AI platform.
She has enabled the adoption of data mining best practices in various v1 products across Microsoft client, server and services in MS-Office, Sharepoint, Online Services (Bing Ads) organizations and in the Academic Search service. She co-authored a book ‘Developing Solutions with Infopath’ and holds patents in service engineering. She leads Microsoft Research Outreach efforts at Data Science Institutions in US universities. She co-chaired KDD Cup 2013 and partners with many academic and government agencies including NSF supported Big Data Innovation hub effort, a consortia coordinated by top US data scientists and expected to advance data-driven innovation nationally in the US. She is currently leading the microsoftopendata.com project, a cloud based open data repository.
Projects
Azure for Research
- Cloud computing aids researchers in solving the unsolvable in medical data labeling
- Helping proteomics scientists share peptide data: Azure does the heavy lifting
- Creating intelligent water systems to unlock the potential of Smart Cities
- Transportation Data Science at Microsoft
Academic and Government engagements
- Calling all aspiring Women in Data Science
- Microsoft partners with National Science Foundation to empower data science breakthroughs
- Calling all AI Innovators – Cloud AI Challenge
- NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs collaboration — looking back after one year
- A new understanding of the world through grassroots Data Science education at UC Berkeley
- Microsoft continues to support data science research with $3M cloud credits to NSF BIGDATA program
- Microsoft boosts NSF’s Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs with $3M in cloud computing credits
- Mind meld, Microsoft Research style
- Data mining competition takes center stage in Chicago – KDD Cup 2013
