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title: "Rajesh Balakrishnan - Principal Data Scientist in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajesh Balakrishnan, Principal Data Scientist | Driving Measurable Business Impact with AI (and Rejecting What Doesn’t) | Mentor @ MIT IDSS based in Greater Bengaluru Area."
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# Rajesh Balakrishnan on Tal

## Headline

Principal Data Scientist \| Driving Measurable Business Impact with AI \(and Rejecting What Doesn’t\) \| Mentor @ MIT IDSS

## About

Principal Data Scientist \| Building Revenue\-Driving AI Systems \| $10M\+ Annual Impact \| Customer\-First AI \| AI Capability Builder \| AI mentor I build AI systems that improve how businesses understand, serve, and grow their customers\. My deployed AI portfolio delivers $10–15M\+ annual business impact, primarily through customer targeting, pricing, demand forecasting, and marketing effectiveness\. These systems are embedded into real decision workflows and continue to generate value year after year\. I specialize in translating business ambiguity into scalable decision systems across marketing, customer intelligence, pricing, and revenue optimization in retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and B2B/B2C environments\. Beyond building systems, I strongly believe in democratizing AI literacy\. Beyond work, I mentor data scientists and cross\-functional teams, and have served as a course mentor for senior leaders — including World Bank economists, college professors, doctors, lawyers, and government officers — helping them understand how AI creates real strategic value\. My strength lies in identifying high\-leverage opportunities, designing pragmatic AI solutions, and driving stakeholder trust and adoption\. Focus areas: Machine Learning, GenAI \(RAG, agentic systems\), customer intelligence, forecasting, supply chain and production AI\. I am deeply interested in building AI capabilities that become a long\-term strategic advantage for organizations

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## Work experience

Principal Data Scientist at TE Connectivity, Jan 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Consultant \- Data Science at TE Connectivity, Sep 2021 \- Dec 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Data Science Mentor MIT \- IDSS Great learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jul 2021 \- 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

Senior Data Scientist at Eli Lilly and Company, Mar 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos, India

Principal Data Scientist at Coffee Day Group, Oct 2018 \- Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos, India

Data Scientist at Anheuser\-Busch InBev, Jan 2018 \- Sep 2018 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Anna University Chennai

HSC\(\+2\), Computer Science group, Mahatma Matriculaton Higher Secondary School,Tamil Nadu,India

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