Gayatri Pal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Recognized among '10 Most Inspiring AI Leaders in India 2025'.
  • Delivered AI frameworks improving operational uplift by $2B.
  • Holds several patents in applied AI.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI leader with extensive experience in retail and manufacturing sectors.

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Predictive MaintenanceReliability AnalyticsGenerative AI

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Hello! I am Gayatri Pal, a visionary Data Science and AI leader with around 24 years of experience in driving transformative initiatives across the retail, manufacturing, and automotive sectors. My expertise lies in Predictive Maintenance, Reliability Analytics, and Generative AI, where I have successfully led global teams to implement enterprise-scale AI strategies that deliver measurable operational and business impact. I am passionate about leveraging advanced analytics and AI to enhance system reliability and operational efficiency while fostering an inclusive and innovative culture. Throughout my career, I have been recognized among the ‘10 Most Inspiring AI Leaders in India 2025’ for my contributions to AI innovation and ethical governance. I hold several patents in applied AI, showcasing my commitment to advancing the field. My leadership style emphasizes mentoring and collaboration, ensuring that my teams are equipped to drive data-driven decision-making and achieve strategic business goals. With a strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and data science frameworks, I am dedicated to pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AI and analytics. Key Achievements: - Delivered enterprise-wide AI frameworks that improved markdown accuracy and contributed to a projected $2B operational uplift. - Led an AI-driven supply resilience system, enhancing strategic sourcing and risk mitigation. - Directed the creation of a commodity price forecasting platform projected to deliver £650M+ in value. - Developed patented backtesting and model lifecycle governance platforms, strengthening model reliability and compliance. - Championed ethical AI governance and DEI initiatives, fostering an inclusive culture within the global Data & Analytics organization.

Experience

24 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Tesco bengaluru

Head of Data Science

Jun 2024Apr 2026 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Leading Data Sciences teams in India & UK on Retail Ops & Fulfillment, Space, Range & Merchandising, Commodities forecast for owned brand products & AI Governance & Innovation
  • Site Leader for Tesco India DS & DSE team

Target

Director AI

May 2020Jun 2024 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Lead AI solutions for Space, Presentations & Transitions analytics for Stores along with DS recommendation for better decisioning for sourcing and costing of owned brand products.

Walmart

2 roles

Senior Manager Data Science

Promoted

Nov 2017Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Data Scientist

Apr 2015Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Symphony teleca

Sr Manager

Aug 2013Mar 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

Ibm global services

Managing Consultant

Jun 2008Aug 2013 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Working on different cross sell initiatives including market basket analysis, spend optimization across region, developing collaborative filtering technique to predict the cross sell opportunities for market basket data etc. using SAS, R and also managing & mentoring a team of analysts

Citi

Manager

Jan 2007Jun 2008 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Worked on Customer Analytics; driving solutions for different business problems like: Customer Life Value, Customer Segmentation, Micro Entrepreneur, Survey Analysis etc. The tools and techniques include all kinds of predictive modeling, segmentation & classification rules using SAS, EMiner, SPSS.

Genpact

Manager

Sep 2006Jan 2007 · 4 mos

  • The job responsibility was to carry out different statistical analysis in fraud analytics for credit card services. The software is mainly SAS Unix Version and Model Builder.
  • Initiation of the new project on the attrition rate modeling based on Survival analysis.

Amba research

AVP-Quantitative Research

Oct 2005Sep 2006 · 11 mos

  • The Job responsibility was to do statistical analysis of financial data. Developing estimation techniques of different models like GARCH, FIGARCH etc. Forecasting interest rates, Forex rate change. I used Pannel Regression, Multiple Regression, Univariate and Multivariate Kalman Filter techniques to analyze and forecasting the Foreign Exchange Rate.
  • Development of investor's Risk Appetite Index based on the beta value. I back tested the rule on S&P 500 Index.

Crm survey

Statistical Analyst

May 2005Oct 2005 · 5 mos

  • Here the job responsibility was to develop statistical tools for online market research survey like TURF Analysis, Conjoint Analysis etc., after doing statistical analysis of such data. The statistical packages used are R, S-Plus, Systat. And designing reports for the same.

Dps

Consultant

Sep 2000Apr 2004 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • One was on Statistical Signal Processing, in which the main objective was Audio/Video Data Analysis and Compression. My area of contribution includes development of certain Statistical algorithms and their testing using statistical packages like S-PLUS. These algorithms were based on some sophisticated concepts of non-linear regression techniques and wavelets analysis of wave signals/Audio data.
  • The Audio/Wave data is basically a time series data. The non-linear regression techniques to analyse this huge set of time series data are applied here. This also includes modeling of the data. The used methods are AR, ARMA, ARIMA etc. Some information theoretic criteria, namely AIC, BIC, Hannan-Quinn Criteria, were also used for data modeling. This also includes implementation of Prony's Algorithm, model selection through cross validation approach, parameter estimation of exponential signals through constrained EVLP method, modified Prony's algorithm.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Senior Management Program

Jan 2014Jan 2015

University of Kalyani

M.Sc — Statistics

Jan 1991Jan 1997

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

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