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I am a Risk Analytics Leader from San Francisco, CA with a background in Systems Engineering with specialization in Data Analytics/Data Science who focus on solving critical business problems for top Consulting, Fintech and Financial Services companies in Payment Fraud/Money Laundering domains through Data Analytics and help banking organizations in saving multi million dollar fraud/operational loss as well as in meeting regulatory guidelines.

I have technical expertise in Data Analytics, Data Quality, Data Science, Data Visualizations, Text Analytics, Payment Fraud/Money Laundering, Analytical Databases, SQL, SAS, Python, and Tableau/Power ...

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” This quote by Walt Disney befits our mentor, Karuna Lakhani, who exemplified the outcome of determination and dedicated efforts. An electronics undergraduate from the Mumbai University, she worked with Accenture Technologies for three years before taking up masters in Data Science in 2019 at the renowned British Columbia, Canada. Today, she is a researcher, CTO and founder of Daten and Wissen. Data Scientist with certifications in SAS, Machine Learning, and programming languages SQL, Python. She is a certified Neo4j professional with ...

I'm currently working as a Lead Data Scientist for an international cryptocurrency exchange. I've been working in industry for 13 years. I'm also currently doing my PhD in Machine Learning on a part-time basis, where I'm specializing in the use of machine learning and social network analysis to detect fraud in a commercial setting.

My industry experience is varied, having worked in e-commerce/travel, investment management, engineering and consulting. I also act as a Learning Facilitator for the MIT Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy course.

I lead the Data Platform team at Convoy - a $2.75B unicorn startup. I manage our Machine Learning Platform, Experimentation Platform, and Data Discovery tools. I have worked in product at companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Subway, and SEPHORA. I'm also a Seattle based Angel Investor specializing in the Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Data Tools space. I have personal investments and also work with several larger firms in the area.

I'd be happy to talk about any topic in tech: from product strategy, to startups, equity, and venture capital, pitchdecks, ...

I know what it’s like to try to break into data science. In September 2014, I drove to San Francisco from my home in New Haven, CT to attend a data science bootcamp with dreams of landing a job in the field. Three years and two data science positions later I began teaching data science, and over the past two years I've had the pleasure of working with dozens of students, taking many of them from little or no data science knowledge or coding ability all the way through developing ...

Hui Xiang Chua is a Data Science for Social Good fellow and has over six years of experience solving problems using data in the public service. Combining her passion for education, data, and tech, she was a recipient of the KDD Impact Program award for bringing data science into a high school curriculum. She is also the #VizforSocialGood local chapter leader for Singapore and runs a data science blog called Data Double Confirm that was recognised as 2018 Top 100 Data Science Resources on MastersInDataScience.com. She is currently an instructor ...