Pavankumar Murali

Dr. Murali is a Senior Research Scientist in the AI Applications department at the IBM T J Watson Research Center. His research interests include applying optimization, machine learning and statistical analysis techniques to build data-driven models for addressing business problems in pricing, marketing, product development and service science. More recently, he has developed scalable approaches for training optimal decision trees, and devised joint prediction and optimization techniques to address process dynamics for production optimization applications in heavy industries. Dr. Murali received his PhD in Operations Research from the University of Southern California in 2010 and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in 2003.