Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar is an experienced professional specializing in building analytical products and providing data-driven solutions for unstructured data using deep learning techniques such as CNNs, LSTMs, Transformer, and Transfer Learning.

He is a recognized expert in Kaggle competitions, with a profile showcasing his achievements in various data science challenges and a speaker at Kaggle Days.

Vikas has industry exposure in BFSI, Healthcare, and Life Sciences and is proficient in using tools and languages like Python, SQL, Elasticsearch, Tensorflow, Keras, PyTorch, and more for data analysis.

His key skills encompass NLP tasks like Classification, Information Retrieval, Sequence labeling (NER), and Language Modelling, as well as Computer Vision tasks such as Semantic Segmentation, Object detection, and Image Classification.

With an educational background from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he studied Dual Degree (B.Tech + M.Tech), Vikas has a diverse professional experience having worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at a Stealth Startup, Consultant at Deloitte India, Data Scientist at EXL, Decision Science Intern at Quantiphi, Inc., and as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Kansas State University, USA.

His past accomplishments include winning Silver Medals in Kaggle competitions like Quora Insincere Questions Classification for NLP and the 2018 Data Science Bowl for Computer Vision. He was also the National Runner up in the Nasscom Analytics challenge in 2016.