About Me!

Hello, I am Ramya Tekumalla and I am currently an Associate Professor of Data Science at Mercer University. I received my Ph.D from the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University. I worked in the Panacea Lab with direction from my advisor, Dr. Juan Banda. I did  my undergraduate in Computer Science from Gitam University, masters in Computer Science from Georgia State University. I have worked as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer and ML Scientist in the past and hold an overall industry experience of 7 years and research experience of 5 years. 

I am a scientist interested in mining large unstructured data sources and curate data sources specific to a domain. I adopt methods from machine learning, statistics, natural language and inference analysis to gather data and generate insights. I have mined over 16 billion Tweets for NLP tasks to gain insights for several applications like pharmacovigilance and most recently, characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from technical skills, I have strong communication, writing and management skills.