Sunil Kumar Vuppala

Demonstrated thought leader in AI in the industry with 16+ years of Industrial and Research experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Analytics, Automation, IoT, Healthcare, Telecom and Smart Grid. Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala is the Director – Data Science, Ericsson Global AI Accelerator (GAIA), Bangalore. Sunil worked in Oracle, Infosys R&D and Philips Research before joining Ericsson.

Sunil is a lead inventor of 20+ patents (6 granted and 14+ pending applications). He has published more than 30 papers in both international journals and conferences. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE and Fellow of IETE. Featured among the Top 10 data scientists in India and 40 under 40 data scientists in 2019 by Analytics India Magazine. As Co-chair of industry engagement in IEEE Bangalore section and visiting faculty at Great Lakes, INSOFE, he has taught AI and analytics (100s of lectures) and inspired thousands of working professionals and students to take to the data science field. Regular speaker in the top AI forums with 30+ tech talks / keynotes across India, Europe and US in last 3 years.

Actively leading and contributing to emerging AI technologies including Explainable AI, Edge AI, Trusted AI, Synthetic image generation using GANs, Autonomous image acquisition with AI and Visual intelligence from drone images, scalable telecom grade reliable/performant models for prediction of network issues with root cause analysis from terabytes of data for large telco operators in the world.

Sunil received B.Tech (CSE) from JNTU, Hyderabad in 2002 and M.Tech (IT) from IIT Roorkee in 2004 and Ph.D. (IT) from IIIT Bangalore in 2018. He completed his Senior Management Program (SMP) from IIM Ahmedabad in 2019.