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Vikas Raykar wins IBM’s highest technical award

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If fashion trend forecasts are anything to go by, polka dots are the next big thing. At least that’s what experts say, based on rigorous data analyses, mood board compilations, or just plain intuition. But every now and then, these predictions fail, and tonnes of dotted dresses may end up in landfills or on discount racks within weeks of manufacturing. The gap between traditional forecasting methods and the great potential that technology offers, is what inspired Vikas Raykar to take the issue in hand at IBM Research.

„With the fashion industry being the second largest contributor to the carbon footprint, I feel there’s an urgent need to embrace more sustainable ways to manage production. And that’s where technology comes into play,“ says the Bengaluruean.

As a senior researcher at IBM’s R&D division, Vikas leads a team of 11 researchers in developing algorithms to decipher real-time industry trends, patterns, silhouettes and colours. „The idea is to tackle the inefficiencies in the fashion retail supply chain, in order to reduce the amount of unsold inventory,“ he says.

India’s talent in recent years is almost on par with that in the US. In fact, Bengaluru is a high-tech hotbed where you’ll find people as young as post-millennials discussing machine learning algorithms in coffee shops

Vikas Raykar, senior researcher, IBM India R&D

An engineering graduate from NIT Trichy, Vikas’s tryst with AI/ML began while he was a Master’s student at the University of Maryland, US. „It was early 2007, and the industry was booming,“ he recalls. „I was drawn to machine learning and its ability to solve complex, real-world problems, so I decided to stay back and pursue a PhD in it.“

Vikas’s first stint was at Siemens Healthcare in the US, where he worked for five years, following which he moved back to India and joined IBM Research in 2012. The core ideas and application of machine learning, he says, remains the same across different industries. He’s currently spearheading an IBM project with the Indian arm of Danish retailer Bestseller, leveraging AI technology to predict fashion trends.

Earlier this year, Vikas received the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, the highest technical award at IBM.

In research, Vikas says, India has been churning out a lot of innovations and talent in recent years, almost on par with that in the US. „In fact, Bengaluru is a high-tech hotbed where you’ll find people as young as post-millennials discussing machine learning algorithms in coffee shops.“

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