Madlen Ivanova

As Director, Madlen Ivanova is currently responsible for the analytics, data science, and engineering functions in the Store organization at Lowe’s. Sitting at the nexus of the technology transformation journey at Lowe’s, her team is driving innovation by building Lowe’s proprietary AI-driven products and smart technologies. In her previous role at Lowe’s, Madlen led the Digital Data Science team, responsible for the enterprise recommender system for both Digital and Stores.

Before joining Lowe’s, Madlen was part of Enterprise Software Solutions, where she worked with small and large clients to advance their predictive models, consult on solutions, and solve some of their most pressing strategic and operational problems.

Madlen is the ambassador for Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Charlotte. She became the ambassador of the Stanford-led initiative and started the Women in Data Science chapter in Charlotte in a close partnership with UNC Charlotte back in 2018.

Madlen graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and holds an M.A. in Data Science and Business Analytics from UNC Charlotte. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval at UNC Charlotte.