Dr. Harsha Gurulingappa is a part of Merck Data Office within the Merck Group which a leading science, and technology company in the area of Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics businesses.

He works as Head of Text Analytics responsible for driving the development and adoption of practices leveraging text analytics and natural language processing across organizational sectors.

He did his Ph.D. in the area of biomedical text mining and has over a decade of dedicated experience in both research and production implementation of text analytics solutions for various business sectors.