Pragyansmita Nayak is Senior Data Scientist (Federal Data Intelligence) at Hitachi Vantara Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Vantara. She has over 20 years of experience in software applications and data science-related research and development.  

She is an avid hackathon participant including winning the AngelHack 2016 HPE Haven OnDemand challenge, presenting at the White House “Hack the Pay Gap” challenge of 2016 and the CERN ThePort Social Innovation global hackathon.

She is the founder of the Norther Virginia (NoVA) Deep Learning Meetup with over 1900+ members.