About

Alok Kumar is a seasoned Sr. Data Scientist with approximately 6 years of experience in advanced analytics consulting. He is an expert in generating business value for clients through data-driven solutions and has worked for several large clients across Payments, Retail, Rail-road, and Banking sectors. Alok has a strong background in quantitative methods such as video analytics, text analytics, NLP, deep learning, Bayesian models, mixed-effect models, generalized linear models, regularized models, tree-based ensemble methods, clustering techniques, and time-series modeling. He is proficient in languages such as R, Python, and SQL. Alok has published a research paper on "Machine learning-Grey model for prediction" and has contributed to several open-source projects on GitHub. He is currently working as a Sr. Data Scientist at Deloitte India, where he leads a team to forecast call volume of a bank's customer contact center at scale. He is responsible for building and deploying models for several markets. In his previous role as a Data Scientist at Deloitte, Alok built a commodity price forecasting tool that helped clients with long and short-term forecasts along with intelligent buying recommendations. He also deployed an AI-enabled contact center on AWS cloud to manage appointment services for the products. Before joining Deloitte, Alok worked as a Senior Analyst at Tiger Analytics, where he modeled customer and asset inflow on media spend to explain the impact of individual marketing channels on business outcomes. He also built a video analytics tool to monitor safety violations in the oil and gas industry using deep learning and automated surveillance systems that alarm if any worker is not wearing safety gear or enters a danger zone. Alok holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science and Engineering from Asansol Engineering College and an Intermediate Science degree in Computer Science from St. Xavier's College. He is proficient in several technologies such as AWS, Deep Learning, SQL, Python, ML, NLP, and AI. With 7.02 years of relevant experience, Alok is a highly skilled and accomplished data scientist who can provide valuable insights and solutions to businesses.