Robin A Thottungal

Robin A Thottungal is EPA’s first chief Data Scientist focused creating/implementing an agency wide vision on analytics for effective decision making. Prior to joining EPA, Robin was at Deloitte Consulting where he focused on selling and delivering large scale analytics projects for public sector and commercial clients. He also led the global big data community of practice for Deloitte, developing analytical frameworks and go-to market strategy for big data and analytics solutions. Robin is the Vice-Chair for the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Washington DC section as well as the chapter chair for IEEE Computational & Intelligence society. He is also a selection panel member for the American Academy of Sciences - Science & Technology Policy Fellowship. Prior to joining Deloitte, Robin was at Johns Hopkins University, where he lead the development of a Computational Bioscience software product used for drug discovery by Pharmaceutical Industry. Robin holds a graduate degree in Computational Sciences from Johns Hopkins University and was the recipient of a National Institute of Health (NIH) Pre-doctoral fellowship. He also received the prestigious NIH Post-Bac research fellowship to do advanced computational medicine research at NIH after obtaining his undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from the State University of New York. Robin has authored more than 5 scientific publications and presented at 20+ conferences on various aspects of data analytics. Outside of work, Robin enjoys spending time with family, rock climbing, acro-yoga, running and cooking.