Piyush Madhamshettiwar

Lead Data Scientist and Analytics, VicRoads

Melbourne

Piyush is a business focused lead data scientist and big data consultant with over 10 years of experience making data-driven discoveries, uncovering actionable insights and enabling decision-making to improve business outcomes. He was nominated for "ACS Digital Disruptors Awards - 2018".

Piyush did his Ph.D. in Applied Machine Learning with a particular focus on complex systems, graph theory and analytics from The University of Queensland in 2013, followed by a prestigious CSIRO Office of the Chief Executive Post-Doctoral Fellowship to work on solving complex big data problems. He has published several high-impact papers in data science space and developed open-source big data tools & analytical platforms which attracted national media attention in 2012. He is passionate about learning new skills, knowledge sharing, developing relevant learning paths with industry focus and mentoring teams to advance into their data career. Piyush have recently completed his program on the Disruptive Strategy from Harvard Business School Online.

Piyush is currently working as a Practice Lead for AI, Data Science and Analytics at the Department of Transport (previously VicRoads), Enterprise Information Management. Recently, he received a special recognition from Minister Jaala Pulford and her Deputy Secretaries of his work in AI in transportation and solving business problems around road safety and incidents management.