About

Sumit Kumar is a highly experienced Senior Data Scientist with over 6 years of experience in the consulting and life sciences industries. Currently working with Oracle Cerner Corporation, he has previously worked as a Data Science Associate Consultant with ZS, where he helped clients leverage advanced data science techniques to solve business problems. Sumit has a deep expertise in Optum and clinical data, and has experience implementing a range of supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised machine learning techniques. He has worked on multiple projects involving the implementation of machine learning solutions on various RWD sources such as EMR, Payer, Switch claims, and clinical datasets. He has also worked on deriving insights from unstructured datasets such as protocol documents and coaching notes. In addition to his expertise in machine learning, Sumit has worked on clinical operations in the pharmaceutical R&D practice area. He has worked on clinical trial site feasibility and optimization, where he applied optimization techniques such as linear/non-linear optimization model to achieve study goals by minimizing the total study trial duration, total number of sites, and total cost. Sumit has a strong educational background, having completed an Integrated Masters in Mathematics & Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has also completed his high school education from RLSY Inter College, Jhumri Telaiya, and matriculation from Kailash Rai Saraswati Vidya Mandir. Sumit's technical skills include Data Scientist, Research Scientist, NLP, ML, Python, AWS, Deep Learning, SQL, XGBoost, AI, Random Forest, Neural Networks, Software Engineer, Word2Vec, Amazon Athena, Naive Bayes, SVM, Seaborn, Data Engineering, test, Hadoop, Mobile, and Apache Hive.