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Abhinav Misra

@abhinavmisra

Associate Data Scientist at Expedia India

Bengaluru, India

www.linkedin.com/in/abhinavm24

EXPEDIA INDIAINDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR

Abhinav Misra is an experienced Data Scientist with expertise in Machine Learning and Big Data ecosystems. He has a proven track record of developing personalized recommendation modules and data models for customer engagement at companies like Expedia and Affine Analytics. Proficient in Python, Spark, SQL, and Tableau, he is skilled in transforming complex data into actionable insights.

Experience

ASSOCIATE DATA SCIENTIST/ SOFT. ENGG.

EXPEDIA INDIA

Aug 2001 - Present

Created simplistic data model to drive personalized email/Onsite campaigns. Created implied attributes like user’s home origin, preferred airport etc. to drive customer engagement. Automated the process of Hive table generation over generic tracking log data for easier analysis. Created personalized recommendation modules to drive the Destination landing pages on the website. Deployed the models on the near real time infrastructure (Apache-Flink).

BUSINESS ANALYST

AFFINE ANALYTICS PVT LTD

Jul 2001 - Aug 2001

User Profile Graph (Oct 2016 – Present): Created user profiles containing various implicit and explicit attributes exhibiting user engagement for marketing campaigns. Planned a traveler life-cycle and segregated it into various phases for understanding interaction and improving engagement. Performed EDA to identify traveler’s trips using user signals and implemented a rule-based trip classification algorithm in Spark. Implemented Similarity (Distance) based activity classification algorithm. Deployed predictive model driving email targeting on big data environment. Also developed a Price Elasticity Markdown optimization model targeted towards clearing inventory.

Education

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BHUBANESWAR

B. Tech (Hons.)

Civil Engineering

Jan 2012 - Jan 2016Grade: CGPA: 8.51

Licenses & Certifications

Machine Learning X Series

Coursera

• No expiration

Statistical Learning

Stanford

• No expiration

Analyzing and Visualizing data in Excel

Microsoft

• No expiration

Data Analysis and Statistical Inference

DataCamp

• No expiration

Introduction to Computational Finance with R

DataCamp

• No expiration

Introduction to Statistics with R

DataCamp

• No expiration

Skills

Python
Scala
SQL
Spark
Flink
R
VBA
Machine Learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Spark-ML
GraphX
Tableau
HIVE
Big Data