About

Prabhat Kumar Saraswat is a highly experienced Principal Data Scientist and Head of Data Science at Sequoia Consulting Group. He is a specialist in research, mathematical modeling, programming, music maths, and has over 11 years of relevant experience in the field. At Sequoia, Prabhat leads the efforts to leverage the power of Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning to contribute to the new market category "Total People Investment" pioneered by Sequoia. He is currently hiring for multiple levels in this exciting greenfield opportunity to create deeply meaningful applications of Data Science and Machine Learning in this domain. Prior to his current role, Prabhat worked towards leading data science function in Content Recommendations creating Recommender Systems for Huawei Video, Huawei Music, Huawei Books, and Themes apps. He also led the machine learning team to strengthen the Advertising Technology (AdTech CTR/CVD prediction) at Huawei. Prabhat has also founded and led the data science team at Wynk and Airtel Xstream (Airtel-Digital) and helped create top music and video recommendation and personalization experience in India. Prabhat has also worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Paytm where he leveraged the potential of big data to create scalable innovative products and processes. He has also worked as a Data Scientist at makemytrip.com where he worked to create novel products using the alchemy of maths, algorithms, and data science. He co-founded Airwoot (MemeticLabs Technologies Pvt Ltd), a revolutionary product that enables brands to effectively manage their customer support on social media. Prabhat holds a PhD in Embedded Systems from the Technical University of Denmark, where he worked on "System Level Design and Optimization of Distributed Soft Real-Time Embedded Systems". He also holds a Masters in Embedded Systems Design from the Advanced Learning and Research Institute (ALaRI), Switzerland, and a Bachelors Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), India. Prabhat is proficient in various technologies and tools including Data Scientist, Research Scientist, ML, NLP, Computer Vision, TensorFlow, Big Data, Python, AI, Deep Learning, SQL, AWS, Jupyter, Recommendation system, Reinforcement Learning, Senior Software Engineer, CNN, RNN, Spark, Hadoop, Search, GCP, and Mobile.