Chitra Dorai become the first Indian woman to be conferred with prestigious IBM Global Fellow title
Chitra Dorai, a senior researcher at IBM and an alumnus of IIT Madras was conferred with the prestigious IBM Global Fellow title
Chennai: Chitra Dorai, a senior researcher at IBM and an alumnus of IIT Madras has become the first Indian woman to be conferred with the prestigious IBM Global Fellow title, the biggest honour bestowed by the company. A 1987 batch electrical engineering graduate from IIT Madras, Chitra Dorai, is a company veteran of 18 years, and a global leader for research and innovation in financial services.
A leader in financial industry analytics, her achievements include innovations in machine learning, multimedia content analysis, unstructured data mining and computer vision.Her recent work is focused on transforming mortgage services in the banking industry. Dorai’s goal is to reduce the potential for mortgage-driven market crises while enabling people to fulfil their dreams of home ownership.
Dorai was one of the nine women in the undergraduate engineering class of 320 students at IIT-M. About early years, the IIT alumnus says that her training to question the status quo began early in life. “Luckily my parents’ and teachers’ independent thinking nurtured my love for Maths and Science. I opted to pursue engineering instead of medicine, which was considered more prestigious and also preferred for women among Indian families back then,” she said.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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