Vikash Chandra Sharma

Data Scientist, Strategist and Statistician with 11 years of experience in Data Science and Analytics. I have been leading data science teams and contributing on technical and strategic fronts. I have vast experience in Banking and Finance and have also worked with companies in Healthcare and Stocks and Indices. I have worked in the risk and data for banks like Barclays Capital and leading NBFC in India (Bajaj Finance).

Technically, I am well versed in Python, R, SAS, and have good experience with Spark and Hadoop. With Statistics as my background, I have abilities to mine hidden knowledge within larger sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. I can implement various machine learning algorithms on larger data sets with heavy dose of applied statistics.

Eureka AI (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

LeadingtheDataScienceproductbuildingforMoneyLendingmarkets(DS2:FI)indifferentgeographiesnamelyIndia,Indonesia, and US. The product brings in the capability of bringing together data from various sources like bureau, open banking and Telco and then utilize them to underwrite customers for various financial products.

BAJAJ FINSERV (Pune, India)

LeadtheDataScienceunitforB2B:EMICardbusinesslineforBajajFinance.ThisbusinesslinehadthelargestCustomerbase and was one of the top contributors in B2B in terms of revenue.

LeadtheteamonthreefrontsnamelyDataScience,DecisionScienceandPortfolioAnalytics.Iwasresponsibleforoptimizingand supporting the business with data backed decisions and data science-based solutions.

MSCI (Mumbai, India and Makati, Philippines)

Leadaglobalteamof8datascientistswithdirects(JuniorDataScientists)atdifferentlocationsnamelyManila,MumbaiandGeneva.

 Played a vital role in building the Data Science Team at MSCI and was also a member to the AI Governance Council within MSCI which was solely responsible to review any Data Science initiative and rationalize the deployment of the solution

Previous Organizations (Barclays, UnitedHealth Group, Global Analytics)

Represented UnitedHealth Group at the first Healthcare conference at IIM Ahmedabad and presented my paper on Ensemble Approach for Zoonotic Disease Forecasting using Machine Learning techniques

PresentedtheDigitalAdoptionstrategyandtechniquestotheexecutivecommitteeinJohannesburg,SA.Thisstrategywasfurther submitted for awards and ABSA won the Gartner Award for this.

Statistics and Informatics
Relevant Courses: Probability and Statistics, Statistical Inference, Sampling Techniques, Econometrics, Operations Research, Genetic Algorithm, Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Database Management