Arvind Jayakumar
India
Master of Business Administration (MBA), 2017
College: Green Templeton College
Funding: Louis Dreyfus-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann Saïd
Arvind Jayakumar is a Data Science and AI Executive and Forbes 40 under 40 Data Scientist of 2023. He has collaborated with 50+ Fortune 1000 firms and contributed significantly to transforming mental healthcare as an AI Advisor at RCube Health. Currently, Arvind serves as the Director of Technology AI at Springer Nature Group, leading the industrialization of AI in global research. He successfully built an AI Centre of Excellence for a renowned academic publisher, showcasing his adeptness in navigating complex AI, machine learning, and data science landscapes at executive levels. He's actively contributing insights on AI, leadership, management, technology, and data science. He pursued the MBA in order obtain the theoretical frameworks, financial skills, and practical guidance to allow him to advance an Artificial Intelligence Platform which he developed to aggregate global water quality and quantity data.
Prior to Oxford, he obtained a Degree from BITS Pilani in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering. Arvind’s career began as a trainee in advanced process control and industrial automation within the Corporate R&D division of the Aditya Birla Group – India’s third largest private sector conglomerate. From here, Arvind transitioned to Safe Water Network, a young and dynamic social enterprise, where he created the systems and processes that would ultimately help the firm expand its offerings from 8 villages to about 100 villages, as well as worked on a pioneering Remote Monitoring solution that has generated considerable interest within the sector.
