Kumar Subramanyan
Senior Director, Modelling, Analytics, AI, Unilever R&D,
Unilever
Dr. Kumar Subramanyan, Head of Modelling & Analytics, at Unilever R&D, leads a global team of data scientists, focused on delivering analytics capabilities and AI solutions to enable data driven decision making to drive product innovation across Unilever’s multiple product categories. This team works closely with the R&D teams in the major business categories along with relevant functional teams such as IT and Marketing and an eco-system of external partners to deliver leading edge analytic solutions and capabilities to the business.
Kumar has over 25 years of experience in R&D at Unilever with broad expertise in Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Predictive Modelling, AI and ML applications, Digital Transformation, in addition to a decade in product innovation including Clinical Research, Consumer Insights, Product Testing & Claims Substantiation. Kumar was previously Director, Clinicals, at Unilever R&D in Shanghai, China, responsible for clinical testing for Unilever’s Personal Care and Food’s product portfolio in Greater China and East Asia (2007-2012) and has been leading data science and digital transformation programs at Unilever for the past 11 years.
Kumar holds a PhD in Applied Chemistry from Columbia University (1996) and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016). Kumar resides in Southbury, CT, USA and in his spare time enjoys playing tennis, running and road biking
Kumar has over 25 years of experience in R&D at Unilever with broad expertise in Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Predictive Modelling, AI and ML applications, Digital Transformation, in addition to a decade in product innovation including Clinical Research, Consumer Insights, Product Testing & Claims Substantiation. Kumar was previously Director, Clinicals, at Unilever R&D in Shanghai, China, responsible for clinical testing for Unilever’s Personal Care and Food’s product portfolio in Greater China and East Asia (2007-2012) and has been leading data science and digital transformation programs at Unilever for the past 11 years.
Kumar holds a PhD in Applied Chemistry from Columbia University (1996) and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016). Kumar resides in Southbury, CT, USA and in his spare time enjoys playing tennis, running and road biking
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