Vijay Yadav

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Merck & Co Inc
Director, Manufacturing Analytics
Vijay Yadav is the Director of Manufacturing Analytics within the Center for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) at Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, Pennsylvania. He is accountable for driving the manufacturing analytics strategy/roadmap and owning the development and deployment of AI- and ML-driven advanced analytics capabilities in support of business priorities. Vijay has over 20 years of experience working in pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing. His current and prior key projects involve developing AI/ML-driven products to monitor and control manufacturing processes using industrial IoT data streaming, edge systems, computer vision, and big data platforms. Vijay holds a MS in computer science from the Institute of Management Technology, India, and an MBA from Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts.

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