Niharika Deokar is an AI Engineer at Fiftyminds and a Springer Nature published researcher with a focus on AI/ML for climate and sustainability. Her first publication explored ML modelling for climate change in agriculture. She holds an MSc in Data Science from the University of Bristol, where she was awarded the Outstanding PLUS Award for partnership building. Her dissertation research on retail data pipelines for sustainability metrics led to a presentation at the University of Oxford and a forthcoming publication in Springer Nature LNSS. She has 2+ years of experience across fintech, sustainability, and AI consulting. She is a passionate advocate for women in STEM and tech and actively seeks out opportunities to represent the cause.