Aadharsh Kannan — Data Scientist

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EDS's mission is to unlock the potential of data to digitally transform Western Digital and consequently, the world. EDS is comprised of multidisciplinary exemplifiers, legacy-builders, and go-getters who harness WD's organizational data to improve pricing, operations, and optimize long-term capital expenditure. Currently, the organization is driving a data-driven transformation to help WD achieve its financial and strategic goals. Prior to this, Aadharsh led a cross-geo organization of Software Engineers, Data and Applied Scientists, and Economists at Microsoft. He was engaged in discovering research incubations rooted in economics, confirming traction, and delivering technology to add long-term value. He was instrumental in devising Microsoft's digital currency strategy; he led research incubation with solutions involving permissioned and permissionless distributed ledger technologies. With over a decade of experience in developing and deploying, economics-powered, large-scale, data-intensive software systems, Aadharsh has demonstrated expertise in driving business growth and revenue yield using Econ and ML-based technologies. He has a proven record of accomplishment in building organizations and delivering technology solutions from the ground up. He is experienced in articulating company-wide technology strategy, driving for consensus, and delivering it through necessary incubations.  <a target="_blank" href="https://medium.com/@aadharshkannan/principles-of-data-science-307da20a240d">Principles of Data Science that Aadharsh abides by.</a> <p> </p> <p>Research Publications:</p> <div id="refs" class="references csl-bib-body hanging-indent" role="doc-bibliography"> <ul> <li><div id="ref-he2017scale" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> He, Di, Aadharsh Kannan, Tie-Yan Liu, R Preston McAfee, Tao Qin, and Justin M Rao. 2017. <span>“Scale Effects in Web Search.”</span> In <em>Web and Internet Economics: 13th International Conference, WINE 2017, Bangalore, India, December 17–20, 2017, Proceedings 13</em>, 294–310. Springer International Publishing. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-he10660vscale" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> He, Di, Aadharsh Kannan, Tie&Yan Liu, R Preston McAfee, Tao Qin, and Justin M Rao. n.d. <span>“VScale Effects in Web Search, v in: R. Devanur n., Lu p.(eds) Web and Internet Economics. WINE 2017.”</span> <em>Lecture Notes in Computer Science</em> 10660. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-kannan2016text" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Kannan, Aadharsh, Kristopher Wayne Langohr, Naganandhini Kohareswaran, and Juan Balmori Labra. 2016. <span>“Text Classification Using Bi-Directional Similarity.”</span> Google Patents. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-kannan2021characterizing" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Kannan, Aadharsh, Jacob LaRiviere, and R Preston McAfee. 2021. <span>“Characterizing the Usage Intensity of Public Cloud.”</span> <em>ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC)</em> 9 (3): 1–18. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-kannan2018drowsiness" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Kannan, Aadharsh, Govind Ramaswamy, Avinash Gujjar, and Srinivas Bhaskar. 2018. <span>“Drowsiness Onset Detection.”</span> </div></li> <li><div id="ref-kannan2020drowsiness" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> 2020. <span>“Drowsiness Onset Detection.”</span> </div></li> <li><div id="ref-kilcioglu2017usage" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Kilcioglu, Cinar, Justin M Rao, Aadharsh Kannan, and R Preston McAfee. 2017. <span>“Usage Patterns and the Economics of the Public Cloud.”</span> In <em>Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web</em>, 83–91. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-mcafee2015measuring" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> McAfee, Preston, Justin Rao, Aadharsh Kannan, Di He, Tao Qin, and Tie-Yan Liu. 2015. <span>“Measuring Scale Economies in Search.”</span> <em>Microsoft Slides</em>. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-niu2022differentially" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Niu, Fengshi, Harsha Nori, Brian Quistorff, Rich Caruana, Donald Ngwe, and Aadharsh Kannan. 2022. <span>“Differentially Private Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects.”</span> In <em>Conference on Causal Learning and Reasoning</em>, 618–33. PMLR. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-song2016popping" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Song, Hyojin, Aadharsh Kannan, and Simon Wilkie. 2016. <span>“Popping the Bubble: Did Moral Hazard or Adverse Selection Cause the Housing Bubble?”</span> <em>Available at SSRN 2816089</em>. </div></li> <li><div id="ref-wang2019spatial" class="csl-entry" role="doc-biblioentry"> Wang, Shuang, Jacob LaRiviere, and Aadharsh Kannan. 2019. <span>“Spatial Competition and Missing Data: An Application to Cloud Computing.”</span> <em>Work. Pap</em>, 1–23. </div></li> </ul> </div>  </div> </div>   <div id="about">  <div class="eight columns"> <h3>About page header</h3> <p> Type & Grids is <g id="112" data-gr-id="112" class="gr_ gr_112 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace">a HTML5</g> template that focuses on typography and grids. It's responsive which means it looks great on all devices from desktops to laptops to tablets and mobile phones. 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