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Nikesh Srivastava is a highly skilled data science professional with over 15 years of experience in operation research, decision sciences, and business intelligence. He has a strong domain knowledge of supply chain management, procurement and auctions, and real estate. Nikesh is an expert in data mining and text analytics, using state-of-the-art algorithms, and has hands-on experience with various analytical tools such as MATLAB, ILOG-CPLEX, Excel Solver, R, SAS Enterprise guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Alteryx, H2o, and Tensorflow. Nikesh has a proven track record of delivering exceptional results in negotiation, auction design, e-commerce, operation research, business intelligence, decision sciences, supply chain and logistic management, web mining, market basket analysis, text mining, neural networks, Bayesian analysis, influence diagram, information retrieval, internet web analytics, customer analytics, retail analytics, and customer intelligence. Currently, Nikesh is the Head of Data Science at Tata, where he has set up big data and data science practices for Tata AIG and created industry-leading fraud, retention, and customer insights capabilities. He has also developed a real-time fraud detection application for motor OD and health claims using AWS sagemaker, a customer retention model for private motor customers resulting in a 3.5% increase in retention rate attributed to the model, a cross-sell and up-sell model for existing customers to increase GWP, and an application for NEFT payment fraud and cheque bounce detection. Prior to Tata, Nikesh was the Manager of Advance Data Science at ZS Associates, where he led and mentored a high-performing team and was the data science lead for AI, supply chain management, and forecasting. He also provided advisory roles for principals and consultants in the area of AI/ML and data science and developed a patient-level analytics model to estimate market share for a new drug for the endometriosis treatment using positively labeled learning techniques. Nikesh also worked as a Staff Data Scientist at Walmart, where he was responsible for the design and delivery of big data analytics solutions in retail technology with a focus on supply chain, last mile, replenishment, and real estate. Nikesh holds a Master's degree in Internet Science and Engineering from IISC and a Bachelor's degree in Manufacturing Engineering from National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT). He is proficient in data science, senior software engineering, search, AI, ML, research scientist,