Ankit Sharma

About Ankit Sharma

Current position: Working as a Deputy General Manager (Data Science) at Airtel Digital, Gurugram, India Key responsibilities:* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build chatbot which is integrated with Airtel Thanks app.* Building state of the art functionality for intent detection and discovering emerging intents from user query logs.* Provide the vernacular support to the chatbot for all major Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Kannada etc.* Deploy and integrate the functionality with the existing chatbot platform. Total work experience in Data Science:> 8 years Education: M.Tech (Computer Science) with Machine Learning as major from Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, West Bengal, India Key technical skills: • Predictive modeling: Linear and Logistic regression, K-NN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support vector Machine, Anomaly detection etc. Deep Learning- Recurrent Neural networks, LSTM, GRU, BERT, Transformers, GPT, LLAMA, GenAI etc. • Clustering: K-means, Hierarchical, DBSCAN etc • Data Visualization • Programming languages: Python, R, Java, C • Database query languages: SQL, PostgreSQL Webinar/talks/mentorship: • Conducted a webinar on behalf of upGrad on ”Relevance of Data Science in making business decisions” for industry professionals. • Mentoring learners enrolled in Data Science Career Track at Springboard and PG Diploma courses in Data Science at upGrad partnered with in successful completion of their courses. • Delivered a technical talk with hands-on programming on \"Machine Learning and AI: Theory to practice\" on behalf of FLYTXT at Recent advances in Intelligent Computational Systems 2018 (RAICS) conference, Trivandrum, Kerala. Domain expertise: Exposure to working on projects from diverse set of domains such as E-commerce, Retail analytics, Recommendation systems, Natural Language Processing, Telecom etc.

Experience

1. Dgm - Data Science

   Airtel Digital

   Jan 2023 — Present · Gurugram, IN

Education

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University

  B.Tech, Information Technology

  2008 — 2012

• Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

  Master of Technology (MTech), Computer Science

  2014 — 2016

Skills

• Data Structures
• Shell Programming
• Algorithms
• Python
• Coding Skills in C
• Matlab
• Data Visualization
• R
• Coding Skills in Java
• Apache Spark
• Freelance Training R, Python, Scala, Apache Spark Etc
• Public Speaking
• Sql
• Linux
• Exposure to Nltk Toolkit
• Programming
• Database Query Language: Sql
• Gnu Octave
• Exposure to Vuforia Augmented Reality Sdk