Perspective = Opportunity | Sohan Dharmarajah | TEDxColombo

Sohan works on niche analytics solutions. Niche, meaning they leverage fundamental research, domain knowledge and high performance computing to solve problems ranging from automation and marketing, to image processing and credit scoring. His work has been featured by the BBC, NPR, Wired and Engadget. Find out how perspective can bring out opportunities.

Sohan Dharmaraja is a hybrid "researcher + mathematician" problem-solver. He is the CEO at Neotenicity, a boutique consultancy providing niche analytics solutions. Niche, meaning they leverage fundamental research (mathematics, statistics, optimization), domain knowledge (finance, marketing) and high performance computing to solve problems ranging from automation and marketing, to image processing and credit scoring. Their work has been featured by the BBC, NPR, Wired and Endgaget. Sohan holds an MSc in Optimization from MIT and a PhD in Computational Mathematics from Stanford University. Before returning to Sri Lanka, Sohan worked at Goldman Sachs and the US Department of Defense. He also did stand-up comedy and was apparently very successful.

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