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 2026Dubai, 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 2026New 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 2024West 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 2023Dubai, 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 2021Gurgaon, 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 2016Gujarat, 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