Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

Apr 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

Apr 2018 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

Jul 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• This stint was roughly equally divided between two roles:
• 1/ Led large Data Science organization focussing on several verticals such as Pricing, Planning, Supply Chain, Trust and safety, Marketplaces, FinTech, Travel, etc.
• 2/ Led the Planning Product+Engg+Data Science organization.
• Also, led and participated in a few horizontal initiatives viz. conceptualising and executing the internal DS conference (Convergence), DS representative in IP Council, DS hiring strategies etc. Finally represented Flipkart Data Science organization in numerous academic and business forums across the country as well as in conferences and workshops.

Dec 2016 – Jul 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

• Built a team of top class scientists and engineers with expertise in machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning and cloud technologies towards various business and scientific innovations in various domains of financial industry
• Played leadership roles in determining machine learning and cloud strategy for the enterprise
• Engaged in various scientific and industrial communities as speaker, mentor, organiser, presenter in the general field of data science, NLP and analytics

Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Initiated and led multiple projects around conversational artificial AI (chatbots) for customer care and healthcare.
• Developed multiple new directions of business relevance based on large scale text and graph analytics techniques.
• Built and managed a team of talented scientists and engineers from top Indian and global institutes.

May 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Created and managed a new research area "Human Computation" towards exploring possibilities of leveraging the game changing paradigm of crowdsourcing for Enterprise Service Delivery. Hired and managed exeptional researchers (Ph.Ds) from top tier Indian and global educational institutes.
• Championed "Crowdsourcing" research theme in global Xerox Research, managed projects across different centers and drove research strategy in the same area.

Jun 2009 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Initiated and managed collaborative research projects with leading Indian academic institutions.
• Managed a multi-year collaborative Open Innovation research project with IIT Bombay in the area of "Developing Linguistic Resources using Crowdsourcing"
• Actively participated in defining vision, strategic growth, and team building of the new center

Dec 2007 – May 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led and was involved in the process of several IP licensing and services deals of technologies coming out of IBM Research.
• Developed expertise in market analysis, pricing, legal, contracts, etc primarily in the context of research technologies.

Jul 2002 – Nov 2007 · 5 yrs 4 mos

• Led a team of researchers in a multi-year project towards developing an analytics platform for Business Intelligence from text which was deployed in a large contact center. The system with Business Intelligence front end interface for "Customer Satisfaction Analysis" was deployed in real
• operational settings in several units of one of the largest contact centers in India. He led the entire effort of conceptualizing, developing (on UIMA platform) and deploying the solution (working with end users). This project was awarded the prestigious "IBM Research Division Accomplishment" award.
• Had been one of the key contributors in several research projects, in Web technologies and Business Intelligence, Unstructured Information Management spanning across multiple worldwide IBM labs

Mar 2002 – Jun 2002 · 3 mos

• During his brief stay with Strand Genomics, Shourya worked as a part of the development project to build a data mining tool for bio-medical domain