Divya Jain

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Divya Jain
Born
Roorkee, India
CitizenshipUnites States
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
San Jose State University
Occupationsoftware engineer and entrepreneur
EmployerAdobe inc.,

Divya Jain is a software engineer and entrepreneur. Jain has been called a "data doyenne" by Fortune.[1] She is currently a Director of ML at Adobe inc.[2] Previously she was the Data Analysis Engineer at Box Data.[3]

Early life[]

Jain was raised in Roorkee, India with a family that valued education and technology.[4] Jain has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Aligarh University and received her master's degree in computer engineering from San Jose State University.[3] She started working for Sun Microsystems in 2003 and at a startup called Kazeon Systems in 2005.[4] Jain was a co-founder of dLoop, a data-analytics company.[5] Later, she joined Box, after it acquired dLoop in 2013.[6] At Box, she works on machine learning technology, data classification and content analysis.[7]

Family and culture[]

Divya was born in a small university town known as Roorkee, UP, India. After graduating college, she married someone she knew for barely 30 minutes. A few days later, she moved to abroad to an unknown country where she knew only her husband.[8]

Education[]

Jain graduated from Aligarh University with a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. A year later, she shifted to the US, and soon, graduated from San Jose State University with a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering.[8]

Career[]

Divya started her career working at Sun Microsystems in 2003, then moved to a start-up called Kazeon Systems in 2005. Later, in 2009, Kazeon Systems was taken over by EMC. In 2009, Big Data and Hadoop significantly starting growing in market share and popularity. Jain, fascinated and interested by the underlying technology, decided to pursue some formal education in the same and completed a one year graduate course from Stanford in Data Mining and Analysis. Jain left EMC in 2011, worked for another startup till September that same year and then founded dLoop Inc. They specialized in providing Data Analytics for content.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Lev-Ram, Michal (23 October 2015). "These Three Women Are Box's Big Data Triple Threat". Fortune. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  2. ^ ""Walk a mile in someone else's shoes." With Penny Bauder & Divya Jain". thriveglobal.com. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  3. ^ a b Matham, Adarsh (12 January 2014). "Tech Guru: Divya Jain". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b Forrest, Conner (1 December 2015). "Divya Jain: Machine Learning Maven. Startup Founder. Women in Tech Advocate". Tech Republic. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  5. ^ Ravindranath, Mohana (27 November 2013). "Box Acquires Analytics Start-Up dLoop". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 20 February 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016 – via HighBeam Research.
  6. ^ Williams, Alex (26 November 2013). "Box Acquires dLoop To Enhance Security With Fine-Grained Data Analytics Technology". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  7. ^ Harris, Derrick (6 December 2013). "This Woman and Her Machine Learning Tech Could Make Box a Whole Lot Smarter". Gigaom. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  8. ^ a b c Forrest, Conner (1 December 2015). "Divya Jain: Machine learning maven. Startup founder. Women in tech advocate". TechRepublic. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
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