Yash Desai Email & Phone Number

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

- ML/AI Leadership: I lead a team of research scientists and ML engineers to build cutting-edge machine learning technologies for Ads Ranking across Facebook & Instagram (>95% of Meta's revenue). The team researches & deploys into production GenAI models and Deep Neural Network models as well as develops scalable infrastructure for multi-modal (text, images, videos), ultra-low latency, real-time inference.- Org leadership: I drive & engage in several org level initiatives such as Performance Reviews (process improvements, creating rubrics), Engineering efficiency (agile tools), community building (team culture), hiring etc

Boston, Ma, Us

- Head of B2B ML: Led the entire ML org for Wayfair Professional (Wayfair’s B2B brand) with a broad cross-functional port- folio across Marketing, Sales, Service and Pricing functions catering 20M+ e-commerce customers globally- Growth: Received a fast-track promotion (in under 2 years) to senior leadership role for driving huge, sustainable business impact and scaling team to ~4X size (research scientists, ML engineers and Product Manager)- Tech innovation: Developed & deployed in production several state-of-the-art Deep Learning & NLP models with real-time inference (eg. lead/prospective customer identification & prioritization, Marketing campaigns optimization, Sales tasking optimization, Semantic/Topic classification, Discount recommendation)- Org leadership: Member of the executive business planning team, drove strategic external partnerships (ML model monitoring, Data monitoring, Hiring), cloud migration and fostering a vibrant, tech-focused culture

Boston, Ma, Us

New York, New York, Us

Consult executive clients to shape their tech and business proposals for engagements with top organizations via Emissary.io which is backed by Google Ventures, Canaan Partners and G20 Ventures.

New York, Ny, Us

Mentor for Data Science for All (DS4A) program that provides free immersive training to students and professionals from under-represented backgrounds. Guiding emerging Data Scientists to boost technical skills as well as to help them shape a successful career in Data Science

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Role:+ Built a suite of ML products across the entire life-cycle from ideation, development, implementation & A/B Testing for customer acquisition, retention and clinical + Shaped the long-term strategy in collaboration with leadership across Pricing, Risk & Sales + Led a high-performing team of Data Scientists & ML Engineers to deploy world class AI solutions+ Crafted business cases & influenced executive leadership to demonstrate margin & membership impactKey achievements:+ Customer acquisition: Developed machine learning based risk product for new members, hosted on AWS to replace a third party tool driving significant cost savings & margin growth+ AI web product: Created a real-time web application with an AI engine that reduces sales (underwriting) duration by 50%+ Customer retention & margin growth: Deployed a medical cost estimation model that enhanced premium pricing accuracy boosting margins and increased customer retention rate by 2%+ Predictive clinical models: Built a suite of models to predict the likelihood of occurrence of chronic conditions and high-cost patients to enhance their care management and lower healthcare costs

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Role:+Serve clients for strategy, analytics transformation, financial planning and risk management primarily in Financial services and also in Energy and Healthcare sectors +Led diverse teams of business & research analysts, data scientists & engineers across US, Europe, Asia and Middle East Key achievements:+ Customer segmentation: Executed an A/B test to identify & manage delinquent credit card customers using ML and trained frontline agents of a large US bank significantly reducing it’s credit losses+ Healthcare Fraud: Developed an ML solution (Hidden Markov Models) to identify cases of Fraud, Waste & Abuse thereby cutting losses and driving savings by removing third-party vendors+ Oil & Gas risk assessment: Conducted an extensive outside-in analysis to plan risk management across different business units for the CEO's chief of staff of one of the largest global energy companies

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Driving Advanced Analytics projects in Banking and Financial sector. I have developed several stress testing models, credit loss estimation models and portfolio optimization tools. Key achievements:+ Worked with a top 5 US bank’s CFO office to develop an optimization tool to maximize Returns on Equity by changing asset-liability mix on the entire global retail & investment portfolio+ Developed a suite of predictive models as part of the strategic financial planning as well as for regulatory compliance

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Data Science/ML consultant in Risk Management practice’s Center of Competence with multiple client engagements globally across Banking and Energy sectors.Key achievements:+ Effectively crafted 20 year strategy for an Oil & Gas client in the Middle East by optimizing their entire portfolio in oil production & refining using Stochastic Monte Carlo simulations + Assisted a large American company with their financial model validation exercise + Developed a web-based simulation game for coaching Partners and clients in financial risk

Québec, Québec, Ca

+ Implemented the first hardware based Smart Power Grid test-bed incorporating fiber and wireless technologies to tackle cyber security & physical threats (blackout, fire)+ Published at IEEE Green Technology Conference '12, USA.

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

+ Researched the utility of carbon nanotubes in toxin detection that increased the speed 28x

Master'S Degree, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Minor, Applied Statistics And Informatics