Deepak Agrawal, Ph.D.
Chief Analytics Officer
Deepak is Chief Analytics Officer of nikoways. He oversees the company's analytics strategy, analytics products, and delivery. Deepak brings over 20 years of experience in advanced analytics, data science, predictive modelling, and machine learning. He has a proven and strong track record of excellence in analytics, heading high end analytics teams, developing analytics products and solutions.
During his 15 year career with Microsoft Data Science at Redmond HQ and later in India he set up Analytics Center with a 70+ team of Analysts and Data Scientists. He played a key role in new product launches e.g. Bing search, MSN portal, helped create new products and new features via extensive analytics, ML, A/B testing and BI work. He built one of the largest BI platforms with OLAP layers using AI/ML algorithms bringing power of data to users across the division, leading to even stronger data driven decision making culture.
Prior to Microsoft, Deepak was a full time faculty at Krannert School of Managementat Purdue University, West Lafayette. His research areas include statistical modeling and applied machine learning.
Deepak completed his Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business, California, USA, a Masters from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, and a Bachelors from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani. He was a John G. McCarthy Foundation Research Fellow at the Stanford GSB and multiple Gold Star award winner at Microsoft.
Deepak is most happy when he is working with data and models, learning new things, and when he thinks he is changing lives for the better by making a positive difference. He likes to play squash and travel in his spare time.
Email: deepak.agrawal@nikoways.com
Kush is founder and CEO of nikoways. He oversees the company strategy, business development, and operations.
Kush Jain / Founder and CEO