Ved Patel Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

United States

Worked as a Data Scientist in the Professional Services team of Coupa Supply Chain Design & Planning (ex LLamasoft). Responsibilites included analyzing supply chain data, building models for various network design problems, and presenting solutions to business stakeholders. Working with Medical Technology Company:• Designed an app where supply chain modeler & supply chain planners of various business units can collaborate to review model's output, run alternate scenarios, and take actions on safety stock decisions• Created visualizations that improved the interpretability of model outputs, supporting supply chain planners in their decision makingTechnology: Multi-Echelon Inventory OptimizationWorking with Food & Beverage Company:• Built ETL transformations in an agile environment for a production capacity planning model to evaluate scenarios like new product addition, variable resources, and safety stock requirements• Modeled various business rules, cost functions, and network characteristics effectively & efficiently in Supply Chain Guru• Coached the customer network design team in successful adoption of the solution with on-site trainingsTechnology: Network OptimizationWorking with Bottling Company:• Developed a POC to model detailed production scheduling considering different production line characteristics, safety stock requirements, and storage capacities• Analyzed various scenarios and summarized different solutions clearly describing the tradeoffs involvedTechnology: Network Optimization

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Teaching Assistant for BIS 044 (Business Analytics) at Lehigh's College of Business. Conducted weekly office hours to assist students with R programming, RStudio, Git, and assignments.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

Worked on my Master's thesis researching and building a deep learning model that can infer an object's position mimicking echolocation (Python: OpenCV, PyTorch, and Matplotlib)

Bethlehem, Pa

• Lead a project for Library & Technological Services (LTS) at Lehigh University to optimize the shift scheduling at university libraries• Developed a novel Integer Programming (IP) model for preference-based shift assignment of work-study students; Paper accepted for oral presentation and in-proceedings for Operations Research track at IISE 2021 Conference & Expo• Transformed student's shift preferences data in Python using Pandas to make them model ready• Formulated model using DOcplex Python API and solved using CPLEX; Reported optimal schedules and result statistics in Tableau• Streamlined the overall scheduling process resulting in higher student satisfaction and saving upto 10 wage hours/week • Best Research Award at the Annual Master's Research Symposium hosted by the Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISE) department, Lehigh University

Master Of Science - Ms, Industrial And Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Mechanical Engineering

Undergraduate thesis in researching material properties of Cr-Mo alloy steels

Exchange Student, Mechanical Engineering