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Gautam Ganesh

Summary

Proven R&D Program Manager with expertise in securing funding and leading digitalization projects. Recognized for driving innovation and strategic initiatives in industrial applications. Experienced practitioner in semantics and data engineering, with a strong focus on knowledge graphs (KG), ontology modeling, data engineering, and GenAI.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

R&D Program Manager

Siemens
10.2021 - Current
  • Generated over €600,000 in funding through the Gas Turbine Digitalization program with Siemens Energy.
  • Successfully led an engineering schematic digitalization project, digitalizing over 200 piping and instrumentation diagrams across 8 plants for 2 customers.
  • Authored multiple invention disclosures, with significant business adoption in knowledge graph technologies for industrial applications.
  • Developed and secured funding for strategic proposals aligned with Siemens' industrial digitalization initiatives, resulting in multi-year customer engagements and expanded use cases.

Lead Researcher

Siemens
05.2019 - 10.2021
  • Served as the Technical Service Owner for the Gas Turbine Digital Twin project for three years, leading a cross-functional team.
  • Architected semantics ontologies and services for automated knowledge graph management and transformation.
  • Instructed the Knowledge Graph and Semantics module in the Siemens Data Architecture Training program, training over 100 software architects.

Finance Risk Technology Associate

JP Morgan Chase Pvt Ltd
08.2018 - 04.2019
  • Built end-to-end data sourcing and enrichment pipelines for loans and commitments businesses to be reported to the Fed.
  • Develop controls and checks at each stage of the processing pipeline to ensure the integrity of the data

Technology Analyst

Goldman Sachs
07.2015 - 08.2018
  • Implemented pipelines to source FICC transactions data stored in multiple data stores; transform them to a common model.
  • Implemented ETL processes to onboard existing Market Risk data flows onto an analytics framework shared by various risk functions in the firm.

Research Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
06.2014 - 08.2014
  • Explored scalable graph analytic approaches on massive, heterogeneous graphs that cannot be handled on traditional, commodity hardware.
  • Benchmarking different parallel implementations of scalable graph mining algorithms on different platforms and architectures.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas At Dallas
Dallas
05-2015

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University)
Chennai
05-2013

Skills

  • R&D management
  • Digitalization strategy
  • Project funding acquisition
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Innovation proposal development
  • Strategic planning
  • Data engineering and analytics
  • Data modeling and knowledge graphs

Awards

  • ECS Jonsson Graduate Scholarship - The University of Texas at Dallas
  • ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2013 Student Travel Award - National Science Foundation

Timeline

R&D Program Manager

Siemens
10.2021 - Current

Lead Researcher

Siemens
05.2019 - 10.2021

Finance Risk Technology Associate

JP Morgan Chase Pvt Ltd
08.2018 - 04.2019

Technology Analyst

Goldman Sachs
07.2015 - 08.2018

Research Intern

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
06.2014 - 08.2014

Master of Science - Computer Science

The University of Texas At Dallas

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University)
Gautam Ganesh