Hulya Farinas has extensive experience in the application of algorithmic approaches to complex problems in multiple verticals. Before joining Greenplum (now Pivotal Labs), she had held positions at IBM and M-Factor where she helped her customers make optimal business decisions under uncertainty by marrying machine-learning algorithms with optimization routines. Hulya is currently a senior principal data scientist at Pivotal where she is the lead for health care vertical. She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Florida.