Hi!!!
I am Rahul, an engineering graduate from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur and an alumni of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, as well. I am pursuing my PhD, in Quantitative Methods and Operations Management, from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. I have a professional career spanning 16 years in corporate and academia, and is still passionate about exploring data using a variety of tools and techniques. I have worked with the likes of Satyam computers, Nokia Siemens and Deloitte Consulting but the urge to explore the uncharted territory led to few start-ups. Few failed and some saw the light of the day!!! Though not very successful in new ventures but bags full of learnings and shortcomings. Currently, I work as a freelancer as well as a founding member of AwesomeStats Consulting; a company, run by few passionate folks, which is primarily focused towards training and consulting in the field of data science.
For over seven years I am also associated as a consultant at Data Centre and Analytics Lab, IIMB. Here I crossed roads with some of the brightest minds in India. Under the guidance of Prof. Dinesh Kumar U, I executed several analytics projects for large corporates. My work in the field of analytics includes predicting credit scoring for co-operative banks of Karnataka; predicting renege/attrition issue for fashion retail company; NPS for a reputed medical equipment manufacturer; predicting design issues for a leading US auto manufacturer; sales and warranty forecasting for a leading auto manufacturer; anomaly detection for a paper-based consumer products company based out of US. One of our research engagements on fraud analytics & credit scoring model, funded by govt. of India, Ministry of Electronics and IT, is copyrighted (ROC: SW-11742/2018).
Being associated with a reputed B-school opened channels for teaching as well. I have imparted 400+ sessions in R/Python/Julia in short and long duration programs at IIM Bangalore. As a freelancer, I have undertaken equivalent number of sessions for working professionals in various corporates. Few of the prominent corporate clients, I have worked with are General Electric, Cisco, Deloitte Consulting, United Health Group, HSBC, Flipkart, Fidelity Investments, General Motors, JP Morgan, TVS Motors, Raukten, Hudson Bay etc.
As a part of the Data Centre and Analytics Lab, IIMB and Analytics society of India, I have also imparted several sessions in faculty developments programs (FDP) and conducted workshops in IIM Bangalore, PSG Tech Coimbatore, PSGIM Coimbatore, CIT Coimbatore, LBSIM New Delhi, Christ University Bangalore, IMT Hyderabad, JIM Trichy, SRM Chennai, SDM Mysore. I do have some publications and have also presented papers in several national and international conferences. Few of the prominent ones are:
- Rahul K., Seth N., Dinesh Kumar U. (2018) Spotting Earnings Manipulation: Using Machine Learning for Financial Fraud Detection. In: Bramer M., Petridis M. (eds) Artificial Intelligence XXXV. SGAI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11311. Springer, Cham
- Invited talk on “Using Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Earnings Manipulations” at 5th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence, IIM Bangalore 11th-13th December 2017.
- Paper on “Predicting Net Promoter Score (NPS) to Improve Patient Experience at Manipal Hospitals” published at Harvard Business Publishing, September 2017.
- Paper on “Behavioral Modeling to Predict Renege” published at Harvard Business Review, January 2016.
- Paper Presentation at CMMI conference organized by CMMI Institute, 10-11 Dec 2014 at Shenzhen, China.
- Paper Presentation at SEPG Europe conference organized by SEI Carnegie Mellon University, 5-7 June 2012 at Madrid, Spain.
Also got an opportunity to co-author a book on “Machine Learning using R” which is in final phases of review with Wiley publication and first edition is expected by July 2021. Though long back in history, I was an IBM DB2 certified professional and ISO 9001:2008 certified lead auditor by DNV India.