Dr. Maya Krishnan

Data Scientist & Researcher

I turn data into actionable insights.

I'm a data scientist and ML engineer with a PhD in Statistics and 6 years of industry experience. I specialize in building production ML systems that drive real business outcomes. My work spans NLP, computer vision, and causal inference, with publications at NeurIPS and ICML.

I built a model to optimize my coffee brewing ratio

My Jupyter notebooks are embarrassingly well-organized

I once spent a week debugging a model only to find a data labeling error

I dream in confusion matrices

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

RetainIQ

Mar 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA

Lead the customer intelligence ML team building churn, propensity, and lifetime-value models. Shipped a gradient-boosted churn predictor (94% accuracy) that saved $2.3M in annual retention costs, and established the MLOps practice covering feature stores, model monitoring, and automated retraining.

Python XGBoost MLOps FastAPI AWS SageMaker

Data Scientist

LogiChain Supply Co.

Jul 2018 — Feb 2021 · Austin, TX

Built demand-forecasting and anomaly-detection systems across a global supply chain. Delivered a real-time analytics dashboard tracking 15 KPIs and a time-series forecasting model that cut inventory holding costs by 18% across three regional warehouses.

Python Prophet Apache Kafka Tableau SQL

Research Scientist Intern

AI Research Lab

May 2017 — Aug 2017 · Remote

Researched fine-tuning strategies for transformer-based language models. Co-authored a workshop paper on transfer learning for low-resource sentiment classification and prototyped the multilingual NLP pipeline later productionized in industry.

PyTorch Hugging Face NLP Research

Programming

Python / Pandas 95%

R 85%

SQL 90%

Jupyter / Notebooks 92%

ML & AI

TensorFlow / PyTorch 85%

Scikit-learn 90%

NLP 78%

Computer Vision 72%

Visualization

Matplotlib / Seaborn 90%

Tableau 80%

D3.js 70%

Customer Churn Prediction Model

Gradient-boosted model predicting customer churn 30 days in advance with 94% accuracy. Deployed via real-time API serving 100K predictions/day. Saved $2.3M in annual retention costs.

Python XGBoost scikit-learn FastAPI

Sentiment Analysis NLP Pipeline

Fine-tuned BERT model for multi-label sentiment analysis across 12 languages. Processes 500K social media posts daily with an F1 score of 0.91.

PyTorch Hugging Face SpaCy Docker

Real-time Analytics Dashboard

Interactive data visualization dashboard for supply chain metrics. Real-time streaming data, anomaly detection alerts, and drill-down capabilities across 15 KPIs.

D3.js Python Apache Kafka Tableau

Causal Inference in Ad Spend — Research Paper

Published research on causal inference methods for digital advertising attribution. Accepted at NeurIPS 2024 workshop. Novel approach to measuring incremental lift without A/B tests.

R Stan Bayesian Statistics LaTeX

35+ Models in Production

12 Research Papers

50+ Datasets Analyzed

94% Best Model Accuracy

PhD — Statistics

Stanford University

2013 — 2018

Dissertation on Bayesian methods for causal inference in observational data. Published two first-author papers at NeurIPS and ICML and served as a teaching assistant for graduate-level machine learning.

BS — Mathematics & Computer Science

University of Michigan

2009 — 2013

Graduated summa cum laude with a double major. Conducted undergraduate research in applied statistics and led the campus data science club.

Causal Inference for Ad Attribution

NeurIPS 2024 Workshop (Causal ML) 2024

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Sentiment Classification

ICML 2019 Proceedings 2019

AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty

Amazon Web Services 2022

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Dr. Maya Krishnan

Data Scientist & Researcher

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ML & AI

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Customer Churn Prediction Model

Sentiment Analysis NLP Pipeline

Real-time Analytics Dashboard

Causal Inference in Ad Spend — Research Paper

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Causal Inference for Ad Attribution

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Sentiment Classification

AWS Certified Machine Learning — Specialty

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