•Fifteen years of global experience in machine learning, NLP, product development, and R&D.
•Top 10 data scientist in India, 2016 by Analytics India magazine.
•Published 5 patents and several journals in predictive analytics, data and text mining, speech and natural language.
•Represented India in the world puzzle championship, Stamford, CT, USA, 2000.
•Develop chatbots and omnichannel machine leaning models on big data platform using application logs, IoT data, speech, text, and other channels.
•Production NLP classification model for legal documents generating $100 million business impact.
•Successful startup experience including raising $4M USD through investors for Lessac Technologies.
•Drive innovation in BFSI, telecom, technology, retail, e-commerce, and manufacturing verticals.
•Manage division with 25 cross-geo professionals and responsible for recruitment and career path.
•Regular invited speaker at academic and professional conferences. Speaker of IEEE workshop on application and research direction in big data, 2016; Analytics India summit cypher, 2016; IIM Bangalore, 2017.
•Conference session chair of global signal processing expo and conference (GSPx), 2004.
•Awarded prestigious Barrier fellowship at Mississippi State University, 2003.
•Deploy natural language speech solution for leading BFSI client handling quarter billion speech interactions and generating $8 million/year savings.