DataFrontier

Team

The people behind the work

A small group of researchers and engineers, and the people who advise them.

Veenadhari Pola

Founder & CEO

Veenadhari Pola founded DataFrontier and leads it as CEO. [FACT_NEEDED: her background — prior roles, domain expertise, and what led her to build a research-led lab.] She set the lab's two rules: publish the research, and productize only what compounds.

Madhusudhan Anand (Maddy)

Advisor

Madhusudhan Anand — Maddy — advises DataFrontier on its research direction. As co-founder and CTO of Ambee, he built deep-tech systems in multimodal remote and ground sensing — fusing satellite, sensor, and model data into climate intelligence used worldwide. A NASA PACE partner, Ambee's platform now serves 4 billion API calls across 120+ countries, powering Pharma, FMCG, and other enterprises that rely on it as a trusted source of environmental data. He has taken deep-tech products from an idea to several million dollars in revenue and raised the venture funding to build them. A patent holder with multiple papers published in ABDC-indexed journals, his work sits at the intersection of applied AI and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), focused on amplifying technology's contribution to societal welfare. He is an alumnus of IIIT Bangalore and BITS Pilani, holds an MS in Data Science from Liverpool John Moores University, and is an alumnus of Y Combinator School, Techstars 2020, Google Launchpad, and Google Research for Social Good.

Research & Engineering

The team

Javier Paparizos

Data Analyst, SME

Vaishnavi Pola

Sr. Data Engineer

Aravinda Lakamapurmath

Sr. Data Engineer

Omkar Mashetty

Data Engineer

Vidisha Jaiswal

Sr. Data Analyst

Lohit N

Sr. Data Engineer

Vignesh

Sr. Data Scientist

Ritika

Data Scientist

Pawana Parimal Malagi

Delivery Associate

Karan Prabhakaran

Data Analyst Intern

Gowtham N

Data Science Intern

The DataFrontier team at the HSR Layout office, Bengaluru.