Deepak Agarwal

Deepak Agarwal is an entrepreneur in the field of e-commerce. He founded Nomorerack.com, in 2010.

He has worked as a big data analyst, specializing in web application relevance and machine learning, and directing scientific research on complex data problems in systems and computational advertising.

Education

He has a Ph.D in Statistics from the University of Connecticut under the guidance of Professor Alan Gelfand.

Employment history

Agarwal has held the following positions over the years: Senior Research Assistant at AT&T and Yahoo; Director of Research and Principal Research Assistant at Yahoo. Then he went to work at LinkedIn where he was the Director of Engineering before being promoted to Senior Director of Engineering. At the same time he took on the position of member of the Board of Directors at SIGKDD. He held a role AT&T Research’s statistics department and thereafter a Senior Research Scientist for Yahoo!

Awards and recognition

In 2001, Agarwal received the award for Best Research Paper from Joint Statistical Meetings. This was given in recognition of his thesis work in patterns of Madagascar deforestation patterns through a two-stage spatial regression model. Three years later he won an award for having the Best Applications Paper at Siam Data Mining. He received this for the Bayesian modeling work he undertook on large sparse social networks via stochastic blockmodels. In 2008 he won the award for the Best Research Paper at KDD for his proposition of a general class of models for large sparse dyadic data.

In 2014, he was listed as a finalist for one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the New York region.

Nomorerack

Agarwal founded Nomorerack in 2010. Since then, he has traded on gross margins of roughly 25% on volumes of than 24 million items sold. At the time, with his then girlfriend Melina Ash, Agarwal assembled a small team to help choose products as well as design the site in its early stages. Agarwal claims that Nomorerack in 2011, took in $9 million and over $100 million the following year.