Diptarka Saha

Associate Consultant

New York, New York, United States8 yrs 5 mos experience
AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Developed patented algorithms for Walmart's retail analytics.
  • Ranked Excellent as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.
  • Pursuing a Ph.D. in Statistics with a strong academic record.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and Analytics expert in Retail and Healthcare sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Risk ManagementRisk ConsultingStatistical ModelingPredictive ModelingData ScienceForecasting

Other Skills

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Bayesian inferenceBusiness RiskCClassificationCluster AnalysisDeep LearningFinancial AnalysisGeneralised Additive Mixed ModelingHadoopHiveLASSOLaTeXLeadershipLogistic regression

About

Demonstrated skills in Statistical Learning, Predictive Modeling, and Machine Learning using R, Python. Notable works include scalable and theoretically robust Statistical models, published and deployed for use to enhance aspects of optimal assortment in Walmart. Currently, pursuing a Ph.D. in Statistics with a background in Statistics, Mathematics, and programming from Indian Statistical Institue.

Experience

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Senior Risk Consultant

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · New York, New York, United States · On-site

Risk ConsultingRisk ManagementBusiness Risk

Novartis

Summer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Morristown, New Jersey, United States

  • Subgroup Identification for Heterogenous Treatment Effect of Malaria Drug **
  • We devised a Meta-Learning based approach to quantify and infer subgroup effects on treatment. We identified interesting subgroups which respond heterogeneously to treatment.
  • Methods/Skills used: Meta Learning, Xgboost, Neural Network, Rshiny, LASSO
Predictive ModelingData ScienceStatistical ModelingSQLArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Bayer

Summer Intern

May 2021Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Champaign, Illinois, United States

  • Forecasting Harvest Readiness using High-Resolution Satellite Data **
  • We used satellite Images & ML to develop an automated algorithm to forecast harvest readiness by capturing the naturally occurring temporal curves at a sub-field level
  • ML Methods used: Xgboost, Generalised Additive Mixed Modeling
Predictive ModelingData ScienceForecastingStatistical ModelingArtificial Intelligence (AI)

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2019May 2025 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Was responsible for conducting discussion sessions, grading, and managing logistics for several in-person and online graduate-level courses with 300+ students.
  • Instructed an undergraduate-level course with 50+ students.
  • Ranked Excellent by their Students
Statistical Modeling

@walmartlabs india

Statistical Analyst

Aug 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Work Experience ********
  • 1. Developed, published, and patented a novel clustering and anomaly detection algorithm – REDCLAN: RElative Density-based CLustering and ANomaly Detection.
  • 2. Developed, published, scaled, patented, and helped in productionizing novel algorithms for determining Promotion Adjusted Loyalty of products from the customer point of sale data.
  • 3. Developed, published, and patented automated stepwise approach to estimate optimal parameters in SARIMA models.
  • 4. Developed a novel statistically efficient technique to estimate lost sales from observed sales and inventory data.
  • 5. Developed an automated forecast engine that provides true demand for the user-defined price, promotion, and other input variables in the domain of apparel.
  • Awards and Recognition *******
  • Was awarded Best Paper at National Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (NCMLAI), 2018
  • Was awarded Associate of the Month (July 2018) among 2000+ associates of WalmartLabs (International)
Predictive ModelingData ScienceForecastingStatistical ModelingSQLHadoop

Goldman sachs

Summer Associate

May 2016Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Developed algorithms to find new and hidden patterns and detected anomalies
  • based on those patterns in financial data using several automated unsupervised
  • learning processes
Predictive ModelingData ScienceStatistical Modeling

Indian statistical institute, kolkata

Placement Coordinator

Jul 2015Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

  • Was part of the team that organized the placement process overseeing full-time and internship placements for several M.Stat, MSQE, and M.Tech candidates of ISI, Kolkata through the years 2016 and 2017
Predictive ModelingData ScienceForecastingStatistical Modeling

Essex lake group

Summer Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • A classification problem: an approach to scorecard modeling for customer attrition data under the assumption of heterogeneous population using logistic regression, k nearest neighbour algorithm and combination of both
Predictive ModelingData ScienceStatistical Modeling

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

Jan 2019May 2025

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

M.Stat — Mathematics and Statistics

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

B.Stat (Hons.) — Mathematics and Statistics

Jan 2012Jan 2015

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