Intel® oneAPI Hackathon for Open Innovation

Usha Rengaraju - Chief of Research, Exa Protocol

Usha currently heads the data science research at Exa Protocol, and she is the World’s first women triple Kaggle Grandmaster. She is ranked as top ten Data Scientists in India for the year 2020 by Analytics India Magazine, ranked as the top ten women data scientists by Analytics Insight magazine for 2021, and also ranked as the top 150 AI Leaders and Influencers by 3AI magazine. She organized NeuroAI which is India’s first-ever research symposium on the interface of Neuroscience and Data Science. She also organized the Neurodiversity India Summit which is India’s first-ever conference in Neurodiversity. She is one of the winners of the “ML in Action” competition organized by the ML Developer programs team at Google and her team won first place in WiDS 2022 datathon.

LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/usha-rengaraju-b570b7a2/

Dr. Shriram Kris Vasudevan- Lead – Technical Evangelist, APJ, Intel

Dr. Shriram has over 15 years of experience in the Industry and Academia together. He holds a Doctorate in embedded systems. He has authored 45 books for publishers including CRC, Oxford, and Wiley. He also has been granted 12 patents. Shriram is a hackathon enthusiast and has been awarded by Harvard University, CII, Google, TDRA Dubai, etc. He has published more than 150 research articles. He was associated with LTTS before joining intel as a Lead –Evangelist,APJ. Shriram runs a YouTube channel in his name which has more than 33k subscribers. He is oneAPI certified Instructor and ACM Distinguished Speaker.

LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/shriramkvasudevan/ 

Jay Mahalingam - oneAPI Academic/ COE Tech Program Manager - Europe, Asia

Develop strategic partnership and engagement with top APJ and European Universities to take the Intel oneAPI story & vision. Managing technical programs of Intel Centers of Excellence in Europe and Asia Work with technical content & infrastructure enabling teams and lead the Intel Academic program for Europe and APJ. oneAPI evangelist for the APJ region and works with regional partners to deliver on the overall program goals and KPI's.

Masters in Information Technology, Advanced Certification in Blockchain Technology and Certification in Data Science

LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymahalingam/

Benjamin Consolvo is an AI Community Enablement manager at Intel. He has a more extended background in deep learning, and computer vision, but is interested in all things machine learning. Prior to Intel, he worked in cybersecurity, using AI to detect phishing images. And prior to that, he worked in the oil business, helping to identify subsurface structures using AI.