Published: May 21, 2025
Welcome to the final episode in our special series of Resoundingly Human podcasts highlighting the finalist teams for the 2025 Franz Edelman Award, the Nobel Prize of Analytics.
These finalist projects represent teams from around the world who have leveraged advanced analytics to transform their organizations, address their most significant challenges, and better serve their customers and communities.
Prior to the 2025 Analytics+ Conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with 5 of the 6 teams and today I’m joined by members of the team representing Flipkart to share some insight into their incredible work.
I think one of the great outcomes of this for me was that it actually helped me synthesize the amount of work that we had put together over the last 3-4 years, all that our teams had done over the last 3-4 years. Not all of which, I think I hadn’t realized the gravity of all of that before we did this, so that made me feel very proud. At the same time, I think going to the conference was both humbling and inspiring. There were some really, really, good presentations, both at the Edelman Competition and at the other competitions that were going on. There were presentations from different parts of the world, different industries.
Interviewed this episode:
Vikas Goel
Flipkart
Vikas Goel is Senior Director, Data Science at Flipkart and leads data science efforts across the Flipkart supply chain. Vikas holds a Bachelors of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, with a specialization in mathematical optimization. He has more than 20 years of work experience, and holds 6 US patents and 12 publications in top peer-reviewed journals.
Prateek Agrawal
Flipkart
Prateek Agrawal is the Director of Product for Supply chain & Inventory planning at Flipkart. His prior work experience focused on Strategy, Business & Product in companies such as McKinsey, Myntra & Blinkit. He holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a BTech in Production & Industrial Engineering from IIT Roorkee.
Gowtham Bellala
Flipkart
Gowtham Bellala is a Principal Data Scientist at Flipkart, working on the applications of AI and OR across the Flipkart supply chain. Gowtham holds a Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, specializing in Machine learning, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has more than 15 years of work experience, with over 30 publications in top tiered journals/conferences and holds over 10 US patents.
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