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Columbia Data Science Institute

Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: Goldman Sachs

Free, open to the public, and does not require registration.

Tuesday, October 1, 2019
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
 
Schapiro CEPSR – Davis Auditorium
530 West 120th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10027
 
Speaker #1: Mayur Thakur, Head of the Data Analytics Group, Global Compliance Division

Biography: Mayur Thakur is head of the Data Analytics Group in the Global Compliance Division. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2014. Prior to joining the firm, Mayur worked at Google, where he designed search algorithms for more than seven years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Missouri. Mayur earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 2004 and a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 1999.

 
Speaker #2: Suruchi Deodhar, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

Biography: Suruchi is a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, leading the Communication Risk Engineering team in the Global Compliance Division. She joined the firm in 2015 after completing her PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. Her PhD research focused on developing large scale data integration techniques and big-data systems for evaluation and forecasting of epidemics.