Vijay Agneeswaran
Senior Director, Technology, Walmart Labs

@a_vijaysrinivas

Dr. Vijay Srinivas Agneeswaran has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from SVCE, Madras University (1998), an MS (By Research) from IIT Madras in 2001, a PhD from IIT Madras (2008) and a post-doctoral research fellowship in the LSIR Labs, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). He currently heads data sciences R&D at Walmart Labs, India. He has spent the last eighteen years creating intellectual property and building data-based products in Industry and academia. In his current role, he heads machine learning platform development and data science foundation teams, which provide platform/intelligent services for Walmart businesses across the world. In the past, he has led the team that delivered real-time hyper-personalization for a global auto-major as well as other work for various clients across domains such as retail, banking/finance, telecom, automotive etc. He has built PMML support into Spark/Storm and realized several machine learning algorithms such as LDA, Random Forests over Spark. He led a team that designed and implemented a big data governance product for a role-based fine-grained access control inside of Hadoop YARN. He and his team have also built the first distributed deep learning framework on Spark. He is a professional member of the ACM and the IEEE (Senior) for the last 10+ years. He has five full US patents and has published in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE transactions. His research interests include distributed systems, artificial intelligence as well as Big-Data and other emerging technologies.