Kaniska (Ken) Mandal

Kaniska (Ken) Mandal has a diverse work experience in various roles and industries. Kaniska (Ken) is currently serving as the Chief Product and Innovation Officer at Sparkflows, where they lead the Product R&D and Customer Success of a self-service business-driven push-down no-code analytics and declarative machine learning platform. In this role, they are responsible for driving the product roadmap, R&D, customer success, and business growth in major verticals.

Prior to Sparkflows, Ken worked at CVS Health as a Data Science Leader, where they led AI-driven transformative innovation for the largest healthcare and pharmacy service provider. Kaniska (Ken) worked on initiatives such as developing an enterprise medical insights discovery service through advanced NLP and leading the healthcare graph initiative. Kaniska (Ken) also built an integrated orchestrated ML workflow and ML Ops solution leveraging Vertex AI.

Ken was also involved with Spotle.ai as a Board Member, Partner, and Strategic Initiatives for EdTech. Kaniska (Ken) served as an ML Mentor at Spotle.ai as well. At Walmart Global Tech, Ken worked as an eCommerce - Search Engine Marketing and Optimization, Big data & ML Engineering Lead. Kaniska (Ken) was responsible for identifying opportunities and productizing growth marketing ideas, as well as creating a platform to generate contextual recommendations for product pages.

In addition, Ken has been involved with organizations such as AIForMankind.org and ValleyML.ai, where they served as a mentor, presenter, and founder of open-source projects. Kaniska (Ken) has also worked at Sensity Systems, Enlighted Inc (acquired by Siemens), StealthMode Startups, Tesseract (incubated by Cisco), and Walmart eCommerce in various leadership and engineering roles, focusing on big data analytics, machine learning, and IoT.

Overall, Ken Mandal has demonstrated a strong track record of leadership and innovation in developing and implementing advanced analytics solutions across industries.

Kaniska (Ken) Mandal has a diverse education history. Kaniska (Ken) obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Machine Learning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they studied from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that, from 1997 to 2001, Kaniska pursued a B.Tech degree in Computer Science with a focus on Statistics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Engineering and Management. Kaniska (Ken) completed their Higher Secondary education in Math and Science at Salt Lake AD School from 1990 to 1997.

Furthermore, Kaniska has acquired several certifications to enhance their skillset. Kaniska (Ken) obtained a Professional Machine Learning Engineer certification from Google in June 2022, a Spark NLP Healthcare Data Scientist certification from John Snow Labs in February 2022, and attended a Tensorflow Workshop organized by MLconf in November 2016. In addition, they hold a Developer Certification for Apache Spark from O'Reilly Media obtained in March 2016. Kaniska (Ken) has also completed various courses and received certifications in areas such as Practical Machine Learning from John Hopkins University, Regression Models, Getting and Cleaning Data, and R Programming from Coursera. Kaniska also holds certifications in HortonWorks Hadoop, Data Modelling, ETL, and Data Warehousing from Hortonworks and Kimball Group, respectively. Notably, they have achieved the SCJP certification from Sun Microsystems in February 2003, and they pursued the SCWCD certification from the same institution, although specific details regarding the month and year are not provided.