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This list highlights young STEM leaders who are already making significant contributions to the future of technology.

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Meet Bhavana Chandrashekhar. She has developed production software and machine learning models that serve millions of customers each day.

As a senior manager of software development at Amazon Technology Innovation, Bhavana leads a team of 35 employees working on one of Amazon Robotics' most critical products. IEEE Spectrum magazine, published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, recently recognized it as a "Beautiful Problem."

During her eight years at Amazon, Bhavana has been a key contributor to the company's advancements in computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. Her work has significantly shaped these fields within the company.

In her previous role, Bhavana delivered two critical software features that supported the world's largest robotic picking system, which, according to the Robot Report, picked billions of packages in 2022.

Her leadership helped her team surpass their 2022 stretch goal, enabling a surge of holiday presents ordered in December. Bhavana has also implemented vital mechanisms to prioritize program features and reduce failure modes.

Under Bhavana's leadership, her team has grown to include 35 individuals and managers. She has made significant strides in achieving over 25% diversity, equity, and inclusion representation, particularly in underrepresented fields such as computer vision, machine learning, and robotics.

She's not just an excellent brand ambassador but has also presented at major Amazon conferences, including Re: Mars and Re: Invent, and has been featured on Amazon Science. Bhavana mentors managers outside her team and leads the Women of Stow affinity group, which comprises about 20 women from the Robotic-Stow team.

Bhavana has published her work on Amazon Science and created free YouTube tutorials detailing how Amazon builds AI-enabled perception for robotics applications. She has also presented her work at technical conferences such as the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), and the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL).

Read more about their accomplishments and projects and how they are shaping the future of technology in the full article here.