Dr. Shailesh Kumar

Chief Data Scientist at Reliance Jio

Dr. Shailesh Kumar is the Chief Data Scientist at Reliance Jio’s Centre of Excellence in AI/ML. With 20+ international publications and patents, he was named one of India’s Top 10 Data Scientists in 2015 by Analytics India Magazine.

He previously served as VP at Ola Cabs, led AI at Third Leap (EdTech), and worked on advanced AI/ML projects at Google. His expertise spans computer vision, NLP, deep learning, knowledge graphs, and conversational AI across domains like finance, retail, and remote sensing.

Research Interests: AI/ML, Deep Learning, Quantum AI, Computer Vision, NLP, Knowledge Graphs, Conversational Computing, IoT.