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# Bharadwaj Manda, PhD on Tal

## Headline

Senior Data Scientist @CAT \| Ph\.D\., M\.S\. @IIT Madras

## About

I am currently working as a Senior Data Scientist at Caterpillar Inc\. I graduated from NIT Trichy with a B\.Tech in CSE, before obtaining my PhD and MS from IIT Madras\.

## Location

Chennai

## Work experience

Senior Data Scientist at Caterpillar Inc\., Mar 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Procurement Analytics Team, Strategic Procurement & Planning Division

Researcher at Siemens, Aug 2021 \- Feb 2022 · 7 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, A Siemens and IIT Madras Collaboration Project titled \- Futuristic Product Life Cycle Management Framework \- Interpretable, Inter\-operable and Interactive PLM \(i3PLM\) Developed an AI\-enabled search engine for 3D CAD models of engineering components\. The developed approach involves a Siamese Network architecture to process input query sketches and images of the 3D CAD models in both its pipelines\. The developed model yielded the best retrieval performance when compared with other state\-of\-the\-art approaches\.

Research Assistant at Advanced Geometric Computing Lab, IIT Madras, Jul 2016 \- Feb 2022 · 5 yrs 8 mos, Chennai Area, India, Research Scholar at the Advanced Geometric Computing Lab, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras\.

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Jul 2016 \- May 2021 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Chennai Area, India, Teaching Assistant for the course ED1021 \- Introduction to Computation and Visualization, during the semesters July\-Nov 2016, July\-Nov 2017, July\-Nov 2018, July\-Nov 2019, Jan\-May 2021

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Jan 2020 \- May 2020 · 5 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Teaching Assistant for the course ED2090 \- Geometric Modelling & CAD, during the semester Jan\-May 2020

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Jan 2018 \- May 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos, Chennai Area, India, Teaching Assistant for the course ED5310 \- Differential and Computational Geometry, during the semesters Jan\-May 2018, Jan\-May 2019

## Education

Doctor of Philosophy \- PhD, Deep learning, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Master of Science \- MS, Deep Learning, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

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