Raj Desai

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Senior Data Scientist at Blend360 @ Blend360
columbia, maryland, united states
Raj Desai's Location
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, India
About Raj Desai

Raj works as a Senior Data Scientist at Blend360 for a year having experience in๐Ÿ. ๐…๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ:โ€ข Build Fraud Detection models using ๐—๐†๐๐จ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ with 5000+ features.๐Ÿ. ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ: โ€ข Build response and revenue models for campaign related modelling. ๐Ÿ‘. ๐‘๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐œ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ: โ€ข Developed and sized business usecases in Profitability, Retention and Acquisition.โ€ข Built ๐‘น๐’‚๐’๐’…๐’๐’Ž ๐‘ญ๐’๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’• and ๐ƒ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐“๐ซ๐ž๐ž classifier models with 27 features to predict patient attrition with 87% accuracy.Besides the client project, he has been working on ๐Ÿ. ๐๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐žโ€ข develop a resume parser and โ€ข research various NLP algorithms like ๐๐„๐‘๐“, ๐†๐๐“, ๐†๐๐“-๐Ÿ, ๐†๐๐“-๐Ÿ‘, ๐ž๐ญ๐œ.๐Ÿ. ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐žโ€ข deployed word2vec algorithm using FASTAPI, Docker, AWS ECR and AWS EC2.๐„๐ƒ๐”๐‚๐€๐“๐ˆ๐Ž๐:Graduated his Masters with major in Applied Data Science at Syracuse University with a score of 3.8, Raj comes with a background of Computer Science Engineering with a scoreย of 3.6. ๐ˆ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ฌ, ๐‘๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐š๐ง๐ ๐’๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ:โ€ข He was a former Data Science intern at Tangible AI where he worked on developing chatbots by building customized Natural Language Processing functions following research papers.โ€ข He has 1 year of research experience in Natural language processing working on various projects.โ€ข He has a solid three years of experience on Python, R & SQL and currently working multiple roles as a Faculty Assistant in Natural Language Processing, a research assistant and a part timer Data Analyst at iConsult Collaborative.๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐‹๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž:On personal front, Raj enjoys his daily workouts in the gym and doing Mixed Martial Arts, helping him to keep physically fit and mentally motivated. Heย enjoys continuously challenging self close to beyond his capacity with patience.

Raj Desai's Current Company Details
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Senior Data Scientist at Blend360
columbia, maryland, united states
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blend360.com
Employees:
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Raj Desai Work Experience Details
  • Blend360
    Senior Data Scientist
    Blend360 Jun 2021 - Present
    United States
    โžข ๐…๐ข๐ง๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ - ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญโ€ข Built XGBoost model with 5000+ features to predict fraud detection using iterative approach for training and tuned hyperparameters with Optuna to keep track of best models and hyperparameters โ€ข Analyzed financial data of 40+ key tables with ~ 4 billion records using HiveSQL and PySpark to decide modelling timeframe and feature engineering for modelling over frequency, recency and monetaryโ€ข Generated good/bad transactions v/s summaries for different segments to decide model segmentation criteria using reusable functions with PySpark saving 27% runtime.โžข ๐Ž๐ง๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ข๐ง, ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ - ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญโ€ข Built Logistic Regression response models with 850 features to predict customerโ€™s response to coupons having 220 liftโ€ข Built Linear Regression revenue models with 220 features to predict revenue generated having 187 lift โ€ข Utilized recursive feature elimination and lasso selection techniques for feature selection to improve lift of models โžข ๐‘๐ž๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐š๐œ๐ฒ, ๐ˆ๐ง๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ - ๐ƒ๐š๐ญ๐š ๐’๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญโ€ข Built Random Forest and Decision Tree classifier models with 27 features to predict patient attrition with 87% accuracy โ€ข Designed several usecases based on retention, acquisition and profitability and pulled data of about ~5 billion records from 10 sources to size number of patients and scriptsโžข ๐๐‹๐ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐Ž๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐žโ€ข Developed resume parser using Spacy, nltk, StanfordNERTagger to parse information like name, education, email, contact with 77% Accuracy.โ€ข Researched and presented complex NLP algorithms like BERT, GPT-2,GPT-3, etc.โžข ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐„๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐žโ€ข Deployed word2Vec model for retail grocery chain using FastAPI, Docker, AWS ECR and EC2 to recommend products to customers.
  • Syracuse University
    Graduate Faculty Assistant, Text Mining
    Syracuse University Feb 2021 - May 2021
    Syracuse, New York, United States
  • Syracuse University Data Science Club
    Events Chair
    Syracuse University Data Science Club May 2020 - May 2021
    Syracuse, New York Area
  • Ipwe
    Data Scientist
    Ipwe Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
    Dover, Delaware, United States
  • Syracuse University
    Graduate Faculty Assistant,Natural Language Processing
    Syracuse University Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
    Syracuse, New York, United States
    โ€ข Extracted features like negative emotion, hedge words, booster words, marker and question to detect intervieweeโ€™s tensionโ€ข Executed feature-engineering on dataset of interviews with 20 genocide survivors and analyzed tension during interviewโ€ข Guided 25 students for solving doubts using Python to strengthen foundation of Natural Language Processing
  • Syracuse University
    Graduate Research Assistant
    Syracuse University May 2020 - Dec 2020
    Syracuse
    โ€ข Pioneered Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modelling on 2000+ documents to observe energy trends in the U.Sโ€ข Achieved baseline coherent score of 0.42 between words within Distributed Energy Resources related topics
  • Iconsult Collaborative At Syracuse University
    Data Analyst
    Iconsult Collaborative At Syracuse University Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
    Syracuse, New York Area
    โ€ข Analyzed the Vendors data using Linear Regression in Excel and presented findings using Tableau โ€ข Generated beneficial insights about users using Google Analytics to increase 22% user traffic rate โ€ข Collected Vendors data from different websites relevant to the business problem to store it in .csv formatโ€ข Analyzed employment data of 1M+ rows utilizing Python and Tableau to discover job opportunities for differently abled
  • Tangible Ai
    Data Scientist
    Tangible Ai May 2020 - Aug 2020
    California
    โ€ข Developed a Django based blog application for users to share their learnings with each other and grow togetherโ€ข Built a web application chatbot with Django using BERT model to test user on interview questionsโ€ข Evaluated user answer with customized BLEU and ROUGE (1, 2, 3, N) function scores to increase 55% efficiencyโ€ข Partnered with Cloud Team for deploying the chatbot application through AWS using services like EC2, S3, RDSโ€ข Mentored another Data Science intern for working on Data Science project to predict anemia in India on 1M+ rows

Raj Desai Skills

Artificial Neural Networks Leadership R Data Science C R Programming Predictive Modeling Microsoft Powerpoint Matlab Data Analysis Predictive Analytics Recurrent Neural Networks Web Application Development Data Analytics Deep Learning Tableau Natural Language Processing Data Structures Microsoft Office Java Pyspark Sql Server Integration Services Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Customer Service C++ Sql Python Teamwork Research Convolutional Neural Networks Machine Learning Transact Sql Statistics Data Visualization Django Data Mining

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Raj Desai works for Blend360

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Raj Desai's current role is Senior Data Scientist at Blend360.

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Raj Desai attended Syracuse University, K J Somaiya College Of Engineering Vidyanagar Campus Vidyavihar Mumbai-400 077.

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Raj Desai has skills like Artificial Neural Networks, Leadership, R, Data Science, C, R Programming, Predictive Modeling, Microsoft Powerpoint, Matlab, Data Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Recurrent Neural Networks.

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Raj Desai's colleagues are Kanekal Mohammad Nawaz Sharief, Srishti Verma, Markos Georgopoulos, Diego Green, Naga Venkata Rajesh Gontla, Sagar Grover, Pritisha Punukollu.

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