About
Vani Mandava is a Principal Program Manager with Microsoft Research at Redmond with over a decade of experience designing and shipping software projects and features that are in use by millions of users across the world. Her role in the Microsoft Research Outreach team as Director of the Data Science for Research effort, is to enable academic researchers and institutions develop technologies that fuel data-intensive scientific research using advanced techniques in data management, data mining, especially leveraging Microsoft Cloud platform through the Azure for Research program.
She leads Microsoft Research Academic Outreach North America efforts at University of California, Berkeley and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has enabled the adoption of data mining best practices in various v1 products across Microsoft client, server and services in MS-Office, Sharepoint and Online Services (Bing Ads) organizations. She co-authored a book ‘Developing Solutions with Infopath’.
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.
Publications
2014
2013
The Microsoft Academic Search Dataset and KDD Cup 2013 – Workshop for KDD Cup 2013
Senjuti Basu Roy, Martine De Cock, Vani Mandava, Swapna Savanna, Brian Dalessandro, Claudia Perlich, William Cukierski, Ben Hamner, ACM – Association for Computing Machinery, August 11, 2013, View abstract, Download PDF, View external link2004
Developing Solutions with Microsoft Infopath
Matthew Blain, Vani Mandava, Patrick Halstead, Microsoft Press, October 1, 2004, View abstract, View external linkProjects
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Data Science Education at the Heart of the 21st Century University
Date
April 26, 2017
Speakers
David Culler
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
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Searching Images with Images: Characterization, Retrieval, and Ranking
Date
March 28, 2017
Speakers
Daniela Ushizima
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Other
Patents
- 20110239057 Centralized service outage communication (Mohan Thimmappa, Vani Mandava)
- 20100082813 – Multiple parallel user experiences provided by a single set of internet hosting machines (Margaret H. Li, Maxim A. Ivanov, Vani Mandava, Vadim V. Varfolomeyev)
Service
- ACM KDD 2013 – KDD Cup Co-chair
- ABI Grace Hopper 2014 – Data Science Track Lead, Posters judge
- ACM Sigspatial 2015 – Local Arrangements Chair
- ACM 2nd IKDD 2015 Conference on Data Sciences – Speaker, Industry Track
- ACT-W 2015 (Advancing the Careers of Technical Women) Seattle, Accepted Speaker – Data Science in the Cloud
- ABI Grace Hopper 2016 – Poster Committee
- ICDM 2016 – Workshop Chair: Cloudmine – Data Mining Systems and Applications in the Cloud