Data Scientist | Adobe | SEATTLE, Washington, United States

“Kunal Khadilkar is a Data Scientist working at Adobe, working on personalization, recommendation and user understanding for Photoshop, the most popular photo editing app. Prior to Adobe, Kunal graduated from Carnegie Mellon University, with a Masters Degree in Data Science. He has been recognized as a ‘Rising Star of Social Impact’ by Harvard Rising Stars Workshop 2020. Kunal’s work in the field of AI for Social Good has been featured in leading journals & Conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, Cell, Nature and 100+ media outlets like BBC, Vice, Times of India, Hindustan Times, WION etc. Kunal is a 2 time TEDx Speaker, talking about how technology can be used to tackle social issues. He was also a Guest Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. Kunal was the opening speaker at the world’s largest AI Conference. Kunal has reviewed 40+ papers for ICDM, O’Reilly, DSAA, NSF etc. In the past, Kunal has been felicitated by the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Narendra Modi and the Education Minister of Singapore, for prototyping solutions in the field of AI for Social Good, for the citizens of both the countries. He has represented India at an international hackathon and has been a winner of the world’s largest hackathon, Smart India Hackathon. Mentoring and Judging: Kunal has mentored more than 10 Hackathon teams at regional and national AI for Social Good events. He was an invited mentor and judge at IBM’s AI for Good Hackathon and Government of India’s Smart India Hackathon. “