About me
Hima Patel holds dual titles of a Senior Technical Staff Member and Research Manager at IBM Research in Bengaluru, India. Her research interests are around data centric AI, including data quality for tabular and unstructured data, data cleaning, data transformations and building AI based data tools for enhancing data scientist’s experience in an AI lifecycle by reducing time to value. She currently heads the code data preparation globally at IBM Research and is responsible for preparing data for all the Granite models which have been open sourced, and are available on HuggingFace. She has given tutorials at KDD 2020, KDD 2021, KDD 2022 and organised workshops at PAKDD 2021,KDD 2021 along with bringing AI in community events like GHCI and IEEE Computer Science Bangalore Chapters 2020, 2021. Her work has also made impact to large number of IBM products for which she has several IBM wide recognition’s to her credit.