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BABLOO KUMAR

@bablookumar

Senior Data Scientist at Gartner

New Delhi, India

GartnerI.I.T., Kanpur

Babloo Kumar is a Data Scientist with over 8 years of experience in machine learning and data science. He has a proven track record of developing and implementing large-scale algorithms that significantly impact business revenues and user experience. His expertise includes advanced statistics, deep learning, NLP, and building end-to-end search and recommendation engines using Python, PySpark, and TensorFlow.

Experience

Senior Data Scientist(Search & Recommendation)

Gartner

Dec 2022 - PresentGurgaon, India

Developed hybrid search pipeline for ranking of research documents at Gartner.com, including creating index/query pipelines in Solr9 for BM25 keyword based search and vector index/query pipeline. Final re-ranking was done using cross-encoder trained on clicked data. Designed a real-time query vector pipeline. Trained gartBert embedding model using transformer Bert model api on Gartner documents data.

Product Development Engineer- II (Search & Personalisation)

Phenom

Sep 2020 - Dec 2022Hyderabad, India

Designed algorithms for blog-based job and course recommendation systems and developed real-time personalized push/email notification system. Designed job recommendation re-ranking system using Listwise ranking algorithms. Analyzed user event data to prevent churn. Architected and implemented job domain and zone classification model. Created a tool to summarize job information pages. Worked on location, education, and job title standardization. Designed skills extraction tool for job and resume data.

Data Scientist

Times Internet

Sep 2017 - Sep 2020Noida

Architected and implemented a deep learning based real-time personalized notification system for Economics Times, achieving ~2X growth in CTR. Led recommendation engine initiatives involving the design, development, and deployment of algorithms impacting ET core products. Developed and implemented Session based deep news recommendation engine, Collaborative filtering, and Keyword & Section based Recommendation Engine. Used NLP techniques for Keyword Extraction and word2vec, Support Vector Machine & Topic Modelling for Section categorization. Developed a Keywords Extraction tool using NLTK library in Python and Flask package for API purpose.

Senior Data Scientist

IntelliPlanner Software Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Jul 2016 - Jul 2017Noida

Developed a model to assign optimum number of dumper, shovel, and loader for minimum operating cost (Allocation Planning Strategy). Developed a transportation algorithm based model for dynamic dispatching of dumper in real-time. Developed a model to predict vehicle component failure using feature engineering and multi-class logistic regression methods, reducing delay time and increasing productivity.

Data Scientist

Novartis

Jul 2015 - Jul 2016Hyderabad

Developed a statistical model for risk-based site monitoring using key-risk indicators. Implemented process automation including data collection, data processing, and statistical model development. Developed a model using various machine learning algorithms (SVM, Random Forest, KNN) to classify clinical trials issues and predict the duration of closing time.

Education

I.I.T., Kanpur

M.Tech.

Industrial and Management Engineering

Jan 2015 - Jan 2015Grade: 7.56/10

M.Tech Thesis: Effect of Degree Of Financial Openness On Stocks Time Varying Betas. Estimated time varying beta’s of BSE-100 stocks using Kalman Filter Algorithm and developed R code for time series analysis (ARIMA, GARCH).

Jamia Millia Islamia

B.Tech.

Electronics & Communication Engineering

Jan 2012 - Jan 2012Grade: 8.9/10

Skills

Data Analysis
Data Archiving
Data Storage
Data Cleansing
Transformation & Mining
Data Modelling
Statistical Modelling
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Text Analysis
Sentiment Analysis
Topic Modelling
Time Series Modelling
Quantitative Modelling
Operation Research and Optimization
C/C++
LINDO
MATLAB
MS-Excel
SQL
VBA
Julia
SAS
SPSS
Spotfire
R programming
Python
NUMPY
PANDAS
SCIPY
SCIKIT-LEARN
MATPLOTLIB
TENSORFLOW
KERAS
PYJULIA
PYSPARK
NLTK
GENSIM SPICY
FLASK
Apache Hadoop
SPARK
HDFS