About

Akshat Rastogi is a Data Scientist with over 8 years of relevant experience, currently working as an Associate Data Scientist - II at Philips in the R&D department. He has a demonstrated history of working in applied research to build proof of concepts (PoCs), designing DS use-cases, solving commercial DS use-cases, stakeholder management, mentoring interns / juniors, and building DS strategy. Akshat's current role at Philips involves building Digital Twins, end-to-end ML (time series, classification) models in the healthcare sector, analyzing industrial data (deriving correlations, patterns), and designing use-cases / ML design. He is also responsible for creating intuitive dashboards / visualizations, presentation & demos to several stakeholders (Director, Global R&D, System / Senior Architects, etc.), product design, and mentoring junior data scientists / interns. Akshat has previously worked as a Data Scientist at Yanxiki, where he owned the entire Data Science process (NLP/ text mining) from start to end, supporting in requirements gathering, conceptualization, analyzing to solving, communicating with business leaders / stakeholders, mentoring interns, and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. He has also been a member of the AI Guild, which is the go-to community for data and business professionals advancing AI adoption. Akshat holds a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computational Mechanics from the University of Stuttgart and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Surat. He has expertise in Research Scientist, Data Scientist, AI, ML, NLP, Computer Vision, OpenCV, Python, product designer, Tensorflow, and Pandas. Apart from work, Akshat likes to help people, read about life, finance, tech, and spirituality. He believes that emotionally intelligent / self-aware people provide the space to be curious and the quality of work, which brings satisfaction and peace of mind. Akshat is always open to discussing new and challenging projects, writing gigs, or just having a stimulating conversation.