About

Afreen F. is a highly experienced Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience across various domains such as telecommunications, banking, healthcare & life-sciences, energy, and finance. She has authored peer-reviewed publications in Predictive Analytics in the areas of Neuroscience, Energy, and Healthcare. Currently, she is working as Vice President, Data Technology at MSCI Inc., where she uses Data Science to help clients make better investment decisions. Afreen's key projects involve building a chatbot for a multinational banking firm, predicting operational efficiency in HVAC systems, building an end-to-end Question Answering system, forecasting IT tickets volumes, extracting key entities from credit-card billing descriptors, and predicting mortality in ICU patients. Her extensive experience in Cloud Computing is reflected in her certifications, including Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate and Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer. Afreen's past experience includes working as an Analytics Manager at Vodafone, where she built an anomaly detection solution for automatically flagging off discrepancies in incoming telecom data. She also conceptualized and led the development of a natural language generation (NLG) tool to provide narratives given tabular data in visualization dashboards. She was awarded the 'Vodafone Star Award' for creating an innovative product through experimentation. At Persistent Systems, Afreen worked as a Data Scientist, using AI to address a multitude of problems across diverse sectors. She built a Question Answering Deep Learning model for simulated stories and questions, the AI backend for a chatbot to respond to banking queries for a multinational bank using NLP and ML, and a model for analyzing Ticketing data for a multinational Financial Software firm. Afreen's educational background includes a B.Tech. in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engg. from IIT, a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering (Focus: Systems Neuroscience) from Washington University in St. Louis, and ICSE, ISC from Hill Top School, Jamshedpur. Her Tech Stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, AI, Data Engineering, ML, Azure, GCP, NLP, Deep Learning, and Backend.