Sevvandi is an applied mathematician working in data science and analytics. She is a senior research scientist at CSIRO’s Data61, where she uses statistics, mathematics and machine learning for her research. Sevvandi is also an Associate Investigator with OPTIMA. Her main research interest is anomaly and event detection. She likes working on real world problems, especially ones that are motivated by industry. She came to machine/statistical learning from a pure mathematics background. Her PhD was in differential geometry. She likes to bring her geometric intuition to solve data science/analytics problems.