Madlen Ivanova, WIDS Ambassador

As a Senior Manager of Data Science at Lowe’s, Madlen Ivanova leads the Digital Data Science team, which is responsible of the enterprise recommender system for both Digital and Stores. Sitting at the nexus of the technology transformation journey at Lowe’s, her team is driving innovation trough building Lowe’s proprietary AI driven products.

Prior to joining Lowe’s, Madlen was part of Enterprise Software Solutions, where she worked with small and large clients to advance their predictive models, consult on solutions, and solve some of their most pressing strategic and operational problems.

Madlen is the ambassador for Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Charlotte. She became the ambassador of the Stanford led initiative and started the Women in Data Science chapter in Charlotte in a close partnership with UNCC back in 2018.

Madlen graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and holds an M.A. in Data Science and Business Analytics from UNCC. She is currently perusing a PhD degree in Computer Science in Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval at UNCC. She is also a winner of the worldwide Teradata analytics challenge in 2017.