Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao -- Current President (2026-)
Dharmateja Priyadarshi Uddandarao is the current serving President of INFORMS PNW and works at Amazon. He holds a Master's in Analytics (Statistics) from Northeastern University, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from NIT Trichy, India. Dharmateja is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, holds PStat® from the American Statistical Association , CStat from the Royal Statistical Society, and AdDSP certification from the Alliance for Data Science Professionals. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Analytics. A prolific author, he contributes to various magazines like The Data Scientist, AI Journal, Analytics Vidya, ACM, Silicon Valley Journal, HackerNoon, and EDUCBA, covering causal inference, econometrics, and applied statistical methodology. Dharmateja also actively contributes to the field through mentoring and committee roles in various professional organizations and conferences
Shamnad Shaffi - Vice President (2026 - )
Rohit Nagpal - Secretary (2026 - )
Rohit Nagpal is the current serving Secretary/Treasurer of the INFORMS PNW and works as a Senior Data Engineer at Amazon, where he leads data engineering and AI automation initiatives within the Finance organization, focusing on scalable data pipelines, AI-powered analytics platforms, and cloud cost optimization at petabyte scale. He has over 8+ years of experience across data engineering, business intelligence, and applied analytics spanning e-commerce, retail, B2B pricing, and consulting.
Rohit holds a Master of Science in Business Analytics from California State University, East Bay, where he graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA and received the Graduate Academic Achievement Award. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Panjab University, India. He is a published author in ACM Communications (CACM), he covers AI-driven cloud optimization and enterprise data analytics. He has also served as a panelist at the ACM Seattle KDD Chapter summit. Rohit actively contributes to the professional community through mentoring Data Engineers, conducting promotional reviews to help engineers advance in their careers, and serving in committee roles including Analyticon at Amazon.