Savitha Kolar
Data Scientist
Savitha Kolar is a data scientist in the Office of Planning, Assessment, and Institutional Research. She supports internal and external reporting as well as data-related initiatives at Penn State. She transitioned to the Office of Planning and Assessment in the summer of 2018. Prior to that, she has worked at the University Budget Office, in LionPATH (representing the Graduate School) and the Office of Student Aid. She has over 20 years of experience at Penn State in programming in both the design and technical development.
She holds an M.C.A degree from the National Institute of Technology, and a B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics, both from India. She also holds a Graduate Certificate in Applied Statistics and is pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence, both from Penn State.