Rakesh Kulkarni Email & Phone Number

Bangalore, India; Rochester NY

Part of Executive Leadership team reporting to the CEO, leading industrial IoT and analytics initiatives. Responsible for setup and management of the Global Engineering Center in India to serve technology needs in US, Germany and other global locations from India.

• Led large, cutting edge technology projects with patent portfolio of more than 100 patents, team size of 20 in:Transportation Analytics - Video analytics based parking
• Promoted to manage engineering, research, and operations during novel pilot program to perform video analytics to evaluate parking needs and change pricing in metro Washington D.C. area.
• Successfully delivered pilot program that included setup and collection of videos from 10+ cameras from streets, development & improvement of data science algorithms to analyze the videos and delivery of visualizations.
• Coauthored proposal entitled Collaborative Optimization and Planning for Transportation Energy Reduction (COPTER) for Department of Energy’s ARPA-e, which awarded more than $2 million in funding for PARC.Healthcare.
• Drove team to improve remote sensing algorithms to work more robustly in different light conditions, poses, etc. with structured experimentation (DoE).
• Led development and delivery of video processing infrastructure designed to analyze consumer healthcare vitals.

• Led team to model and analyze US road network to optimize traffic flow in the Los Angeles Traffic Management High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lanes project. Assembled diverse project team of control system experts, data.
• Document Workflow Automation - Made specific recommendations for automating intensive workflows, including document classification, OCR, and data extraction to ensure business processes remained efficient and effective.

• Business Process Optimization - Delivered recommendation strategies to optimize business process leading to substantial cost savings in one of the largest MNC banks
• Responsible as research consultant to characterize Legal Paper Processing (LPP) business process comprising of 50+ employees and daily volume of 1.6 million. Interviewed key stakeholders and process managers, delivered.
• Led effort to develop process models and perform process mining analysis in ProM to get key insights. Used visualization and process analytics to identify different recommendation strategies that would result in 3+.

• Delivered a methodology to assess market sensitivity of different technologies and features in Xerox products
• Led the effort to deliver novel quantitative methodology connecting product characteristics to sales price.
• Developed methodology based on approaches from data mining (regression trees) and economics (hedonic regression).Led Design for Lean Six Sigma sustainability effort for entire organization
• Deployed a survey to understand the pulse of the organization, interviewed key leaders, developed series of recommendations.
• Organized an advanced statistical modeling course for black belts across several areas and labs; delivered training to black belts as part of the Critical Parameter Management team.Led recruiting and research agenda.
• Led recruiting efforts and developing research agenda in the areas of operations research, supply chain management and optimization for XRCI.

• Invented key components and built center competency around Image on Paper Registration (IOP) technology
• Invented, designed a scanner based IOP measurement system that was deployed to research & engineering sites across Xerox.
• Invented and implemented an error mining methodology capable of separating individual sub-system errors from the total system measurement; this technology resulted in 40% improvement in performance and time savings.
• 4 patents, 2 conference papers and Achievement Award resulting in creation of a competency in this area.
• Led team of subsystem engineers to successfully pass phase gate and deliver improved technology for iGen product variant.Developed novel forecasting algorithm for print shop demand management and led offshore team to.

Performed timing analysis to explore the robustness of media path via simulations using Crystal Ball.

Reduced the number of drive motors by 33% in enabling technology for upcoming products & managed critical parameters for project (Models in Java, Matlab, iSight, Visual Basic and Excel)

Masters Thesis - Infusion of Robustness into Product Platform Constructal Theory (Strategy Design of Product Platforms) Research funded by National Science Foundation

R&D Portfolio Prioritization - Benchmarked portfolio prioritization and strategic planning process at different companies resulting in paper.Database Management, Six Sigma Project.

Masters, Engineering, 4.0

Masters Thesis - Infusion of Robustness into Product Platform Constructal Theory Method (Strategic Design of Product Platforms)

Executive Mba, Management, 3.85

Activities and Societies: Received the Hugh H. Whitney Award for achieving the highest academic excellence in the EMBA program, Elected.

Graduate Supply Chain Management Certification, Supply Chain Management, 4.0

Bachelors, Engineering

Nesting using Genetic Algorithms (Undergraduate Thesis at Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay) - Developed Visual C++ Software to.