About

Kumud Joseph Kujur is a highly experienced Data Science, Machine Learning & Analytics leader with over 17 years of experience in the industry. He has a proven track record of hiring, building, leading & mentoring teams of managers, data scientists, MLEs & analysts in developing robust solutions & contributing to developing end-to-end products. Kumud has created roadmaps for Data Science organizations and managed various Data Science & Experimentation teams across domains. Kumud has worked in various industries such as E-Commerce, Contact Center, Product/Manufacturing, Banking, Insurance, Finance, Sales & Marketing. He has expertise in areas such as Automation, Recommendation/Relevance, Demand Forecasting, A/B Experimentations, Dynamic Optimal Pricing, Product Bundling, Text Classification/Mining, Promotion Effectiveness & Planning, Sales & Pipeline Analytics, Attrition/Retention, Segmentation/Profiling, CRM, Marketing, Campaign Design & Management, Banking Frauds, Event Based Marketing, Cross-sell/Up Sell, Anti Money Laundering, etc. Kumud has extensive experience in Machine Learning, including GLMs, Tree Based Models(Bagging & Boosting), CF/Assoc, Clustering, SVMs, KNNs, and many more. He is also proficient in Deep Learning, including MLP/ANNs, RNNs. Kumud has worked with various tools/software such as Python/Pandas, Pyspark, R, SAS(Base & EM), SQL & sql-like(Hive), Databases(Teradata, Oracle), Hadoop (HDFS), Cloud (AWS). Currently, Kumud is working as a Senior Manager, Data Science & ML CoE, Groupon, where he is leading several teams working on various projects such as Merchant's demand forecasting, Merchant Attrition, Product/Deal Bundling, Supply Density, Predicting Product Category, SEO Keywords recommendation, Extreme Customer Experience flagging, Experimentation, and Machine Learning Platform. Before joining Groupon, Kumud worked as a Manager II, Data Sciences, Groupon Global Service Organisation(Robotics & Automation), and Manager I, Data Sciences, Groupon APAC. Kumud has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from iiit Allahabad. He is proficient in various technologies such as ML, Data Scientist, SQL, AWS, Text Classification, HDFS, Deep Learning, Python, Pandas, Hadoop, Senior Software Engineer, AI, Search, Apache Hive, etc.