Dr. Shailesh Kumar is currently the Chief Data Scientist at the Centre of Excellence in AI/ML, Reliance Jio, Program mentor for the AI/DS program at the Jio Institute of Eminence, and a Visiting faculty of Machine Learning at the Indian School of Business.

Prior to this he worked as a Distinguished Scientist at Ola cabs, Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Third Leap, an EdTech startup, Researcher in the Google Brain team, Sr. Scientist at Yahoo! Labs and Principal Scientist at Fair Isaac Research.

Dr. Kumar has 20 years of experience in building AI solutions in a variety of domains including Telecom, Retail, Finance, Fleet Management, Healthcare, Agriculture, Education, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph, Natural Language Processing, and Conversational computing.

He has published over 20 international papers and book chapters and holds more than 30 patents in AI/ML.

He was recognized as one of the top 10 data scientists in India in 2015 and Top 10 most influential Analytics Leaders in India in 2020 by Analytics India Magazine.

Dr. Kumar holds a Masters and PhD in AI from UT-Austin and B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT-Varanasi.