Purva Bangad

Senior data scientist at Meijer

Expertise: Artificial intelligence, data science

Education: University of Pune; California State University, F

Purva Bangad is a senior data scientist at Meijer and an AI technologist and data science leader with more than 10 years of experience across Fortune 500 companies, startups and entrepreneurial ventures. She specializes in generative AI, machine learning, NLP and enterprise analytics, with experience leading AI initiatives at Fidelity Investments, Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions and Meijer. She earned her master’s degree in information systems and decision science from California State University, Fullerton, and her bachelor’s degree in information technology from the University of Pune and is pursuing her MBA.

 

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Updated on September 23, 2026

Do You Need a Prompt, a Skill or an Agent?

Learn how to choose the right level of AI complexity before autonomy becomes architecture debt.

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Purva Bangad Purva Bangad
Updated on July 09, 2026

Have You Outgrown Prompt Engineering?

Why the next big leap in AI is less about writing clever instructions and more about designing the right system around the model.

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