About

Aliabbas Petiwala is an experienced Cognitive Automation Consultant with a proven track record of working in both academic and industrial environments. He has a diverse background in healthcare, marketing, media/scholarly publishing, and e-commerce. Aliabbas possesses strong skills in Natural Language Understanding, Computer Science, Deep Learning, Statistics, DevOps, Agile, and design thinking. He has several NLU/deep learning automation projects deployed in production, helping millions. Aliabbas has achieved remarkable success in his career, including Market Intelligence and Entity Mapping for e-commerce Projects at a top e-commerce giant in Singapore, achieving a 98.78% AUC score for competitor product matching. He has also improved average medical transcript processing, increasing transcript worker productivity by 50%, through end-to-end NHS Medical Transcription Automation. Additionally, he has automated proofreading and Grammatical Error Correction using Hybrid deep learning and text correction Algorithms for two leading academic publishing, achieving a 67.9% F1 score for automated proofreading. Aliabbas has also developed an NLP framework under a Six Sigma umbrella for automatically classifying and correcting medical transcription errors in the UK healthcare market. He has developed a sentence prediction tool using deep learning for the NHS UK medical transcription market, achieving the theoretical maximum prediction score of 56% hit-rate. Currently, Aliabbas works as a Principal Data Science Consultant at a leading tech giant, where he is responsible for a data-driven user growth platform for user analytics, user acquisition, and churn prevention. His key areas of expertise include Causal Inference, Lookalike modelling, and AI-driven CRM. He utilizes Apache Spark 3.01 and Automated production pipelines for his work. In the past, he has worked as a Senior Data Scientist at a leading e-commerce giant and as a Lead NLP and Data Science Consultant at a leading publishing and scholarly communications company. Aliabbas completed his Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from IIT Bombay in 2015. He also holds an M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Pondicherry University, a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University, and an SSC from Holy Name High School. Aliabbas possesses a wide range of technical skills, including Data Scientist, Deep Learning, AI, Search, NLU, NLP, Spark, Corpus, Research Scientist, and DevOps. With 7.44 years of relevant experience, he is a strong engineering professional with a passion for solving