Faculty
DSP students may speak directly with class faculty and teaching assistants for course-specific advising, or contact +91 80 4718 8686 or dsp@mygreatlearning.com for broader program academic advising.
Faculty contact information can be found in the Northwestern People Directory or within your Canvas course portal. TA contact information will be provided in your course syllabus and can also be reached via your Canvas course portal.
Faculty Director
Thomas W. Miller is faculty director of the data science programme at Northwestern University. He designed distance learning training materials for the programme, including courses in advanced modeling techniques, marketing analytics, data engineering, and machine learning. During the 2019–20 academic year, he taught artificial intelligence and deep learning, natural language processing, and knowledge engineering. Miller has published six books about data science with Pearson Education (the series "Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics"). Miller also owns a publishing and consulting firm, Research Publishers LLC, located in Manhattan Beach, California. He provides data science consulting services and is actively involved in developing chatbot and survey research applications. Earlier in his career Miller worked as a network engineer for NCR Comten and as a field engineer and account representative for Hewlett-Packard Company. He also directed the A. C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research and taught market research and business strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Miller holds a doctorate in psychology and a master's degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota, as well as an MBA and master's degree in economics from the University of Oregon.
Shreenidhi Bharadwaj currently leads the AI, data Strategy & next-gen platform initiatives at Gladson. He focuses on innovation, developing and operationalizing deep learning models, data engineering at scale using on premise & cloud platforms, effective data visualizations, model-driven design & algorithmic thinking. He is active in developing global standards, roadmaps, governance & compliance requirements relating to food services, healthcare, retail, supply chain & CPG/FMCG while driving adoption by simplification. In his previous role as the Director of emerging products at IRI, he led highly visible strategic initiatives in the Consumer and Media science relating to Segmentation, Targeting and Activation, Campaign Measurement, and Hyper-Personalization. With 20+ years of experience, Bharadwaj has been successful in aligning the future state with corporate goals and driving major transformation initiatives including large-scale M&A integrations at Fortune 100 companies while mentoring and managing global teams. Bharadwaj has filed for a couple of patents and has an extensive background in formulating product launch strategies which have helped over a dozen products move from inception to market. He has worked in Telecommunications, Finance, Healthcare, Retail/CPG, and Public Safety domains. Bharadwaj is a graduate of the MS Analytics program from The University of Chicago and BE, Electronics and Communications from Manipal Institute of Technology, India.
Carrie Dugan has held a variety of positions instructing and writing curriculum for all undergraduate levels of online mathematics courses. In addition to her teaching experience, she has numerous years of actuarial experience working with both defined benefit pension plans and self-funded health care plans. Some of her current research interests include character theory, graph theory, and game theory. She holds a PhD in pure mathematics from Kent State University and a BS in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Marshall University.
Nethra Sambamoorthi is an adviser for CRMportals, a global analytics consulting company. In addition to delivering client solutions, he specializes in building best practices in data capture, designing innovative solutions and creating thought leadership in consumer dynamics and marketing intelligence. Sambamoorthi has produced many of the best practices in predictive modeling across multiple industries—credit cards, auto insurance, investment services, retail, CPG and pharmaceutical marketing. He previously was an entrepreneur, focusing on developing and delivering real-time email marketing systems and ROI trends. He has also worked with XLmarketing Corporation, Acxiom Corporation, Schering Plough Corporation, American Express and Prudential, using marketing analytics to address regulatory aspects while optimizing for return on investment and for consumer engagement. Sambamoorthi received a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in applied multivariate statistics, and an MA in mathematics and an MSc in statistics from the University of Madras.
Edward Arroyo has worked for both on-ground and online universities in a variety of capacities during the last twenty years. During that period, he has taught undergraduate and graduate mathematics courses as well as undergraduate programming and theoretical computer science courses. In addition, he worked for several years outside of academia as a test engineer for a digital media company. His research interests and publications are in the areas of combinatorics, data science and image reconstruction algorithms in computerized and discrete tomography. He holds a Ph.D. in pure mathematics from the Graduate School and University Center of CUNY.
Syamala Srinivasan has over 30 years of industrial and academic experience in analytics applied to solve business problems. Currently, Syamala is leading the business analytics practice at CGN Global, Inc. She also teaches at National Louis University in the department of mathematics. Prior to CGN, she worked at Caterpillar Inc., at various technical and management positions for 22 years. She started and developed the Department of Analytics and was the director of analytics before retiring from Caterpillar, focusing on developing and deploying analytical solutions to complex business problems in the entire value chain of product development, manufacturing, supply chain, marketing, and sales. She developed innovative techniques when solving complex business problems and received two U.S. patents. One of those patents was used to spin off a new startup company. Her prior academic appointments include Bradley University, Chicago State University, Northern Illinois University, and Colorado State University. Srinivasan has a PhD in statistics and a MS in statistics from Colorado State University. She has several management and leadership certificates from Wharton & Kellogg’s school of business.
