Yash Puranik

Yash is a Principal Data Scientist with deep expertise in the development and implementation of optimization and machine learning algorithms. Yash is particularly interested in helping clients derive value by leveraging data science and optimization techniques to solve practical problems.

Prior to joining Aimpoint Digital, Yash was an Optimization Research Scientist at The Optimization Firm, where he contributed to the development of state-of-the-art optimization solver BARON. Yash delivered workshops and tutorials, helping customers unlock the full potential of the company's products. Before this, Yash was a Research Scientist at Rockwell Automation, where Yash developed novel algorithms for learning on streaming data, which led to six (pending) patent applications. Yash obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Yash lives in Boston with his cats, Gigabyte and Purrogie, and his epidemiologist wife. He spends his spare time reading.