Yatish Hegde is a Lecturer in A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. Yatish teaches Modeling and Analytics, Applied Machine Learning and Business Analytics Projects classes for the Masters in Business Analytics (MANA) program. He has also taught Business Analytics for the Executive MBA and for undergraduate programs. Yatish has a wealth of experience leading the system development for data analytics applications and has expertise in using Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques in systems development.

Before joining Tulane, Yatish has spent 12 years developing software, including 9 years as a research software engineer, leading the system development for grant funded research projects in the area of machine learning, natural language processing, computational social science and information systems. He has played a leading role in system development for multiple research projects with combined awards of over $3 Million. He was also an adjunct professor in Data Science.