Akshay J.

Lead Digital Downstream @Hindalco Industries Limited

Mumbai, IN

Own the Digital & Analytics transformation roadmap covering Aluminum Rolling, Extrusion, Cast-house & EV Component manufacturing units spanning over 70+ CAPEX and OPEX digital projects.• Responsible for setting up governance, process & reviews with senior leaders/executives/plant managers and lead IT/Digital/Automation stakeholders.• Collaborate with IT & Automation teams to manage a partner ecosystem of 20+ vendors/startups and support various platform/project leads on technical assessment of partners aligning with business opportunity.• Lead a team of data scientists delivering ML/AI use cases on various business themes such as energy reduction, recovery improvement, golden batch prediction, fuel optimization with integrated DevOps on cloud and edge with Azure ML.• Lead & scaled various data management platform Initiatives through PTC Thingsworx & IBA-AG platform for use cases on process analysis, data automation, and machine learning covering a total of 250+ stakeholders across downstream factories and improving performance on key KPIs by 10%.• Drive the program management for supply chain digitization on raw material and finished product Tracking through Blockchain, warehouse management systems, RFIDs etc.• Drive various portfolios & products on AI based – Vision models in manufacturing process covering use cases on product defect, SOP & behavior detection, PPE / Safety compliance detection,• Lead Implementation for Gen AI and agentic AI research assistant for alloy & product design as well pilot context aware chatbots to assist Shopfloor teams in their day-to-day activities.• Support the transition and hiring of talented factory personnel to Full-stack Data Scientists as part of the citizen data scientist initiative.• Strategize and support execution for workplace digitization on DIY E-logbooks using Oracle APEX, laboratory automation and vision analytics using Oracle Analytics Cloud, manufacturing control tower for remote operation & analysis.