Drexel Data Science Club: Industry Series Speaker Session

Friday, February 20, 2026

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Join the Data Science Career Talk Series, a platform connecting students with real success stories, for a Q&A session with Aditya Puttaparthi Tirumala, Principal Data Scientist at Zillow.

Attendees will gain practical insights on:

• What a Principal Data Scientist actually does day to day.

• How to lead technically and influence across teams.

• Lessons from building scalable, real-world data science systems.

About the speaker: 
Aditya Puttaparthi Tirumala is a Principal Data Scientist at Zillow, where he leads Brand and Marketing Data Science R&D and sets the technical direction for marketing measurement. He specializes in marketing measurement and causal inference, building scalable ML- and GenAI-powered systems that translate complex models into decision-ready insights. His work bridges deep technical execution with cross-functional and executive leadership.