Healthcare Strategy & AI/ML Leader | Blue Cross Blue Shield - Illinois, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas





Greater Indianapolis

Greater Indianapolis

India





Master's degree, Applied Statistics
Purdue University
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Strategic leader at the intersection of AI/ML, data science, and enterprise analytics, with a proven track record of delivering transformative solutions across complex, large-scale organizations. I specialize in leveraging AI, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Automation to build self-service platforms that drive cost efficiency, optimize operations, improve decision quality, and create measurable business value. Driven by one goal: turning complex data into decisions that solve business problems and move the organization forward.
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Visiting Lecturer at Purdue University, Indianapolis, Aug 2012 - Aug 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Indianapolis, - Developing, maintaining and sharing instructional resources such as Web sites, instructional materials, readings, or other resources for the use of students. - Serving as a mentor for advising committee about instruction, curriculum, procedure, practices, and politics. Making a significant contribution to the development of the coursework and class policies. - Playing an active role in developing class projects and research groups. - Facilitating professional learning opportunities among staff members and training them for tutor/mentor roles.
Statistical Programmer/ Graduate Consultant at Statistics Consulting Center, Purdue University, Aug 2010 - May 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos, Greater Indianapolis, - Plan CART (classification and regression trees) algorithm and analyses in SAS to predict the subject’s remission in clinical studies. - Visualize health data and build generalized linear model to identify important factors. - Create statistic study reports including summary tables, data listings, statistical analyses, and summarize results
Research Internship at Unisankyo Pharmaceuticals, Jan 2007 - Aug 2007 · 8 mos, India, - Actively exchanged and contributed ideas with Sr Managers and engineers of Quality Control to define, develop and evaluate project plan. - Manipulated substantial reliability data obtained from lab experiments. - Developed accelerated failure time model, resulting in a successful estimation of probiotic drug’s effectiveness and designing drug toxicity models.
Master's degree, Applied Statistics, Purdue University