Uday Shankar Shanthamallu received his Ph.D. degree in 2021 from the school of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He received his Master's degree in electrical engineering from Arizona State University in 2018 and a Bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, India, in 2011. His research interests include representation learning for graphs using machine learning and deep learning techniques. He also has experience on sensor data analytics for anomaly detection. His internship with NXP Semiconductors (2016) focused on algorithm development for sensor data analytics. He also interned with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the summer of 2019 and 2020 where he built predictive models for human brain connectomes.