Ashok Kumar is an experienced data scientist with extensive knowledge in analytics, big data, and machine learning. He has built several large-scale self-serve data science and machine learning applications serving millions of customers. With the proven ability to extract insights from complex data and distilling them into concise communication for business teams. Mr. Kumar has proficient skills in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hadoop, Spark, Visualization (Tableau, d3), R, SQL, Excel, Flask, Matlab, Java, Scala, and SAS. He has a good command of both theoretical and applied understanding of machine learning techniques like regression, classification, SVM, random forest, boosting, dimensionality reduction, recommendation engines, time-series analysis, ensemble methods, bayesian learning, computer vision (CNN architectures), natural language processing (LSTM, GRU, transformers, bert), GPU/TPU computing, and deep learning.

Mr. Kumar holds a Master of Science degree in Computational Data Analytics with a 4.0 GPA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree - B. Tech., Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. He has worked as a Research Data Scientist at Facebook and held various senior data scientist roles at Bank of America, including Vice President, Senior Data Scientist, Assistant Vice President, Technology Manager, and Assistant Vice President, Data Scientist. He also co-founded Qlik Pass and previously worked in senior positions at EXL and Fractal as an Associate Director, Senior Consultant, Analytics Lead, Senior Analyst, and Decision Analytics Consultant. Additionally, he was a Data Analyst in Strategy and Analytics at Wadhawan Holdings Pvt. Ltd.