Abhinav Misra
@abhinavmisra
Associate Data Scientist at Expedia India
Bengaluru, India
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
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
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
Licenses & Certifications
Machine Learning X Series
Coursera
Statistical Learning
Stanford
Analyzing and Visualizing data in Excel
Microsoft
Data Analysis and Statistical Inference
DataCamp
Introduction to Computational Finance with R
DataCamp
Introduction to Statistics with R
DataCamp