About

Sachin Kumar is an executive turned entrepreneur and educator with a mission to transform the way data science is taught and used in industry. As a passionate and innovative data science leader, he has extensive experience developing enterprise-scale data science products utilizing big data, statistical or machine learning techniques, and an open-source technology stack. Sachin has scaled and nurtured global data science teams to drive excellence and revenue growth in Fortune 500 companies. He possesses strong organizational and interpersonal skills to manage trade-offs and resolve conflicts among multiple stakeholders to achieve desired results. With industry experience in e-commerce, digital, logistics, maritime, and IT operations analytics, Sachin is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences and universities and conducts webinars with an audience of over 500. He possesses excellent analytics skills in statistical modeling, machine learning, network and graph analysis, text analytics, time series analysis, econometrics, deep learning, data visualization, Python, and R programming. Sachin also has exceptional behavioral skills, including getting things done, finding the right people for the job, inspiring others to do their best, emotional intelligence, and teaching tough subjects. Currently, Sachin is the Director and Co-Founder of accelerateai, where he is on a mission to develop world-class interactive and engaging data science education in India and impact the careers of lakhs of professionals in the area of data science and AI. He is hustling to make India the world's favorite destination for data science and AI. The current services offered by accelerateai include corporate training in data science in retail and e-commerce, banking and financial services, and supply chain, advisory services in setting up CoE in data science and analytics in India, consulting projects in data science and AI, and subscription-based data science programs for all. Sachin's past companies include Dayananda Sagar University and SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), where he served as an adjunct professor and visiting professor, respectively. Sachin holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and Robotics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Marketing and Management Information System from the University of Georgia - Terry College of Business, and a Big Data Analytics degree in Data Science and Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He also holds continuing education degrees in Deep Learning and Machine Learning from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC). Sachin's tech stack includes data scientist, AI, ML