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ASHISH CHOUDHARY

@ashishchoudhary

Senior Consultant at EXL

Bangalore

EXLRajasthan Technical University

Ashish Choudhary is a Data Scientist with close to 4 years of experience specializing in Machine Learning, Statistical Modelling, and Analytics. He has expertise in developing predictive models, such as Survival Models and Credit Scorecards, and applying NLP techniques to unstructured data. His experience includes building AI products for fraud detection and managing data science deliverables in production environments.

Experience

Senior Consultant

EXL

•Apr 2001 - Present•Bangalore

Build Survival Model analyzing churns of enterprise level data using PySpark on different cohorts for Marketing team to estimate CLTV. Working on a Risk project identifying customers likely to default in the next 90 days and building Credit Scorecard to expand the product line to customers increasing revenue and mitigate losses. Developing pipelines in Python for analyzing data distribution, metrics, stability index for automation in insights and to reduce project time by more than 25%. Validating the models running in production by checking on stability metrics, drifts and recalibrating the predictive models if needed. Managing a team of 2-3 Consultants for deliverables and mentoring in data science project, statistical modelling and ad hoc analysis.

Data Scientist

Wolters Kluwer

•Aug 2018 - Apr 2021

Worked with cross functional teams to make AI Product combining ML and NLP to predict fraudulent billings for Legal Insurance clients reducing expenses and improving model metrics by more than 10%. Identified key metric to assess Law Firm behavior and developed a methodology around metric for internal stakeholders for better selection and avoiding least risky invoices. Word Embeddings, Syntactic Parsing NLP techniques were used to extract information from unstructured key feature. Contributed along with SME and stakeholders to avoid bias, make product more robust and identify duplicate claims and quantify the cost savings for a very big Insurance firm. Developed Predictive Models using XGBoost and worked with Engineering team to deploy models in production and responsible for model recalibrating using feedback mechanism.

Education

Rajasthan Technical University

B.Tech

Delhi University

MBA

Economics & Statistics

Skills

Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
SQL
Statistics
Hive
PySpark
Python