About

Himanshu Arora is an experienced Data Scientist with a strong background in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Time Series Modelling, Python, and SQL. He has a proven ability to understand technical requirements and translate them into actionable project plans. Currently, Himanshu is working as a Data Scientist at PayPal, where he is responsible for developing and implementing data-driven solutions to improve business operations. With over 4 years of relevant experience, Himanshu has worked with several companies, including Artefact and EXL. At Artefact, he improved the current pipeline to predict ROAS by a factor of 150% by analyzing marketing data for clients as well as competitors. He also provided in-depth analytical support to the client by leveraging marketing concepts like Adstock, market saturation, Shapley, and conveyed analytical and actionable findings via verbal and written communications as well as data visualization to the client. At EXL, Himanshu reduced the word matching algorithm run time by 96% by building a custom HashMap based indexer to store similar words in the same key. He also increased the OCR accuracy by 25% by incorporating an image straightening algorithm before feeding the images in OCR and improved the word suggestion algorithm's performance by 20% by returning the most similar word based on edit-distance among all the suggested words. Himanshu has experience working with BERT, CNN, Masked Language Modelling, and other technologies. Himanshu completed his Integrated B.Tech + M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics from Gautam Buddha University. He possesses excellent analytical and problem-solving skills and is proficient in communication and presentations. His tech stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, NLP, SQL, Python, ML, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, test, AWS, Scikit, OpenCV, TensorFlow, Pandas, Neural Networks, CNN, BERT, and more.