Ajit A. Email & Phone Number

Seasoned data science professional with M. Tech (IE & OR) from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) , experience in Data Science, Research and Academics. Professional experience spans more than 22 years at Principal Financial Group, Cedar Management Consulting, SAS R&D, Genpact and Academics. In the current role, Ajit is leading ‘Analytics Solutions & Delivery’ within Investment Research domain at Principal Financial Group.Overall career represents a great mix of leadership, analytics solutioning/consulting, core delivery, model implementation & management, analytics product development, revenue management, team management and mentoring. Ajit has the experience of working with clients all around the globe that includes assignments from US, APAC, Middle East & India. Ajit has helped clients/business partners realize significant dollar impact through analytic consulting & advanced predictive modeling solutions using various unsupervised and supervised machine learning techniques. Apart from modeling, expert at exploratory data analysis & insights generation followed by strategy recommendation to client that is achieved through data science/statistical techniques. With time, Ajit has gained expertise at leveraging unstructured data using Natural Language Processing, Hidden Markov Models and Deep Learning.Ajit is looking to lead analytics practice and leverage his knowledge across industries like Financial Services, Banking, Retail, Technology, Insurance, and FinTech to drive transformational business value for organizations.Specialties:Analytics Consulting-Investment Research, Insurance, Retirement Solution, CX.Leadership, Mentoring, Client/Stakeholder ManagementStatistical Data Analysis & Predictive ModelingMachine Learning/Deep LearningNatural Language ProcessingSAS, R, SQL, Excel, Python