Devangana Khokhar

Devangana Khokhar is a consultant at ThoughtWorks Inc., working on a range of exciting projects, primarily in the data science and analytics domain and is currently based out of Bengaluru. She has more than 4 years of experience in data analytics, social networks analysis, machine learning, and information retrieval. She is also the director of Women Who Code's Bangalore chapter, a nonprofit organization focused on bringing more women into the field of technology. She holds a master's degree in theoretical computer science and has specialized in social network analysis from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. During her postgraduate study, she was intrigued by social networks and machine learning, and she has been in love with data science and analytics since then. Devangana has also been one of the reviewers for R Graphs Cookbook Second Edition, Jaynal Abedin and Hrishi V. Mittal, Packt Publishing.
She is passionate about spreading the message of educational equality and is an advocate of women's right to education and equal stature in the tech industry. She also takes an interest in cooking and reading books, mostly in the realm of nonfiction. She is a Twitter addict and very often shares resources that she finds interesting or useful in her pursuit of getting better at data science. She tweets at http://www.twitter.com/DevanganaK. You can also get in touch with her on LinkedIn at in.linkedin.com/in/devangana.