Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Released Wednesday, 26th February 2025
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Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Navigating Career Transitions: From Academia to Product Management with Sohini Sakhar

Wednesday, 26th February 2025
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Highlights

  • Time at Mathworks (17:27)
  • Being a team leader (18:52)
  • Staying in touch with the technical side (20:04)
  • Advice (27:07)

Bio

Sohini Sarkar is a Principal Product Manager and a Senior Team Lead at MathWorks. Her career started with earning a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and then working on DOE and EPA projects as a postdoctoral researcher. She has held various positions at Dassault Systèmes, ranging from a solution consultant to a market and competitive intelligence analyst, concurrently earning her MBA. Currently at MathWorks, Sohini focuses on established areas such as Math, Statistics, Optimization, and Machine Learning, to more emerging technologies such as Quantum Computing, Large Language Modeling and Generative AI, as well as Scientific Machine Learning.

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