Oishika Kar

Data Scientist @Los Angeles World Airports

Los Angeles, CA, US

Played a key role in LAX’s data-driven initiatives supporting 2028 Olympics readinessProject 1: Dynamic Pricing & Revenue Optimization – Smart Car Parking•Developed ensemble modeling pipelines (regression, time series, tree-based) to generate optimized prices for parking products (general, premium, valet). Designed the approach to be A/B tested against current pricing, expecting a 10–20% uplift in revenue (multi-million-dollar impact within 6 months).•Implemented yield optimization methods (EMSR-A/B, Bid Price Control, S-BPC) to refine pricing strategies and ensuring stall-level pricing is aligned with demand patterns and revenue maximization goals.•Implemented customer segmentation and clustering analyses to distinguish discount-sensitive and loyal cohorts. Insights can inform future discounting and retention strategies with an expected 5–8% improvement in customer retention and upsell potential.•Worked on competitive benchmarking against peer airports (e.g, SFO) and off-airport operators helping shape strategies that maintain LAX’s premium car park pricing advantage while identifying service gaps.•Designed and executed large-scale data pipelines (SQL/PySpark) integrating 15M+ ticketing, booking, and payment records, while performing extensive data cleaning, anomaly detection, and deduplication. Achieved >95% accuracy after reconciliation, creating production-ready datasets that enable real-time analytics and reliable forecasting across parking facilities.•Developed dashboards and visualizations to track shifts in parking behavior, providing the CIO and other C-suite executives with first-time visibility into parking performance and enabling data-driven strategic decision-making.Reporting directly to Chief Innovation Officer

Delhi Public School (DPS)

School graduate, Mathematics and Economics

Lady Shri Ram College For Women

Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Economics

UCLA

Master of Quantitative Economics, Specialization in Data Science