Akshay Thorat

“My mom always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.” -Forrest Gump In my Undergrad, I designed a healthcare product to address the lack of medical facilities in rural areas and used data generated to do a preliminary diagnosis without a doctor. I and my friend started a web consultancy where we digital transformed business and used their data to improve their business. After my undergrad, I was an associate SAP consultant in India, where I analyzed data for some fortune 500 companies. This made me realize the potential of data to transform business and lives of people. Which lead me to persue my Master's degree at CMU. My first year was in Australia, then I interned in Malaysia and I did my second year in Pittsburgh. Since then I am working at Walmart and on product recommendation engine, creating data platforms and the Fraud engine. I am passionate to solve global problems, explore and implement the new emerging technologies, to solve social and business problems. For your "data" emergency problems call me, for rest there is 911 Phone: +1 (412) 5764487 PS. Just a thought, I think we will solve "Intelligence" in our lifetime.