Airtel appoints Santanu Bhattacharya as Chief Data Scientist

Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has appointed Dr. Santanu Bhattacharya as its Chief Data Scientist.

Santanu has a Ph.D. from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is an MIT Sloan and MIT Media Lab alum and BTech from IIT (Bombay). In his new role, Santanu will be responsible for leveraging data science capabilities and deep analytics to understand unique customer needs and accordingly develop innovative products and services at Airtel. He will report to Harmeen Mehta, Global CIO & Head of Digital at Bharti Airtel, and will be based out ofBangalore.

Commenting on the appointment, Harmeen Mehta said, “We are pleased to have Santanu onboard with us as we transform Airtel into a truly digital organization and start using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to solve real business problems. I wish him the very best for his journey with us.”

Santanu brings with him close to 18 years of rich work experience across organizations such as NASA, Facebook, AOL and Delhivery.