Akhil Lohia

AI Researcher

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling.
Led chatbot development impacting hundreds of thousands of users.
Conducted workshops on deep learning applications in NLP.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist with expertise in Travel and Internet industries.

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AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AnalyticsApache SparkArtificial Intelligence (AI)Big Data AnalyticsCC++Computer ScienceData AnalysisData AnalyticsData MiningData ScienceData StructuresData Visualization

About

Experienced Data Scientist with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Machine Learning, Statistical Modeling and Python. Practical professional with a Master of Science (MS) focused in Data Science from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and Bachelors in Economics from IIT Kanpur. Conducted workshops on PyTorch and applications of deep learning in NLP at NASSCOM Annual Technology Conference 2019 and Anthill Inside 2019.

Experience

Amazon

Applied Scientist II

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Part of the Featured Merchant Algorithm team.

Google

Quantitative User Experience Researcher

Nov 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Eka.care

Senior Data Scientist

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on Medical Document Understanding.

Makemytrip

3 roles

Lead Data Scientist

Promoted

Oct 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on developing the chatbot of MakeMyTrip (Myra) which helped hundreds of thousands of users solve their post-sales problems in a realtime mode.
Link: https://bit.ly/2E1kZOt
Worked on developing a Universal Search for MakeMyTrip which allows users to search for all travel needs in a single search box.

Data Scientist II

Promoted

Mar 2019 – Oct 2019 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

** Collaborated on designing a feature store on AWS redshift for use by data science models.

Data Scientist I

Dec 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

** Worked on hotel ranking and user intent prediction models.

New york university

Research Assistant

Jun 2016 – Aug 2016 · 2 mos

Worked on CacheCash - A peer to peer content delivery network system based on cryptocurrency payments.

Universitat pompeu fabra

Research Assistant

Jun 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Worked with Prof. Jan Eeckhout on a project related to Wealth, Marriage and Sex Selection in India.
Research included model development, structural estimation and counter factual policy simulations.