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Kavyasri Jadala

Kavyasri Jadala

Senior AI Engineer · Knowledge Graphs · Agentic AI · Applied ML

Dubai, UAE · kavyasri.2693@gmail.com · github.com/kavya2693 · linkedin.com/in/kavyasri-jadala

8+ years building production data, ML and AI systems across pharma, healthcare claims, retail, e-commerce logistics and energy — enterprise knowledge graphs and Graph-RAG, agentic application generation, forecasting and optimisation, with the evaluation and MLOps to run them. MS, Purdue University. UAE Golden Visa.

Experience

Lead Data Scientist · Dalfin.AI

Feb 2026 – Jun 2026

Dubai, UAE

  • Designed and deployed a demand-forecasting platform across 4,000+ SKUs and 33 stores for a large Philippine retail conglomerate, using global and hierarchical LightGBM/XGBoost models.
  • Served SKU-store forecasts with confidence and model metadata through FastAPI; automated ingestion, retraining, validation and promotion with Airflow, MLflow and Docker.
  • Built an AI application-development platform turning requirements, decks, screenshots and Figma designs into deployable full-stack apps via schema-first domain modelling, multi-agent code generation, automated validation and human-in-the-loop governance.
  • Built geospatial network planning combining forecasts, trade areas, mobility data, H3 indexing and PostGIS to rank expansion sites and quantify cannibalisation.

Senior Manager, Data Science · Bristol Myers Squibb

Jul 2024 – Jan 2026

New Jersey, USA

  • Architected an enterprise knowledge graph integrating 20+ commercial systems on AWS Neptune with RDF, OWL, SHACL and governed semantic models.
  • Built a Graph-RAG assistant translating business questions into governed, citation-supported graph queries, replacing ~80% of recurring ad-hoc data requests.
  • Engineered deterministic and probabilistic entity resolution across CRM, offline engagement and web analytics with confidence scoring and survivorship.
  • Built segmentation and customer-lifetime-value models contributing to a 15% improvement in sales conversion; built an in-house voice-analytics pipeline projected to save ~$600K a year.

Data Scientist, Consultant · Purdue Corporate Partners

Aug 2023 – May 2024

West Lafayette, IN, USA

  • Built a capacitated vehicle-routing model with time windows for a 300-vehicle J.B. Hunt fleet, cutting peak-period misrouted shipments 20% (~$300K a year).
  • Built shelf-intelligence vision with YOLOv8 and Faster R-CNN for planogram compliance at Meijer.
  • Developed Transformer and wav2vec2 audio-text alignment for under-represented languages (~90% accuracy); presented at INFORMS Analytics 2024.

Analytics Manager · Noon.com

Jun 2021 – Aug 2023

Dubai, UAE

  • Reduced daily delivery-demand forecasting MAPE from 25% to 18% across e-commerce, grocery and quick-commerce.
  • Owned demand, capacity and cost forecasting for a $40M+ annual logistics budget across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
  • Embedded model scores into operational APIs and workflows; designed A/B tests for routing and delivery features; led a team of 21.

Senior Data Analyst, Supply Planning · Royal Dutch Shell

May 2019 – Jun 2021

Gurgaon, India

  • Built inventory-optimisation and demand-forecasting models for 800+ products, reducing days inventory outstanding from ~300 to 120 (~$250K a year).

Operations Analyst · Reliance Industries

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016

Gujarat, India

  • Integrated sensor and maintenance data into predictive-maintenance capability that raised plant uptime by 20%.

Skills

AI & GenAI
LLMs, RAG, Graph-RAG, agentic workflows, multimodal (vision, speech), prompt engineering, human-in-the-loop governance
Knowledge graphs
RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, LinkML, AWS Neptune, Neo4j, Cypher, entity resolution
Machine learning
Forecasting, classification, ranking, anomaly and fraud detection, XGBoost, LightGBM, PyTorch, TensorFlow, A/B testing
Optimisation
Vehicle routing (CVRPTW), network and inventory optimisation, Nextmv
Data & MLOps
Python, SQL, R, Spark, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery, Airflow, MLflow, Docker, FastAPI, CI/CD
Cloud
AWS (SageMaker, Neptune, Bedrock, Glue, Redshift), GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery), Azure

Education

  • MS, Business Analytics and Information Management · Purdue University, Daniels School of Business2024
  • MBA, Marketing and Finance · Indian Institute of Foreign Trade2019
  • B.Tech · Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology2014

Certifications

Certified Analytics Professional · AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner · Certified Scrum Product Owner · Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst · Google Advanced Data Analytics · Tableau Desktop Specialist