Dr. Vikas Behrani is Assistant Vice President of Data Science at Genpact with expertise in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning, and leads a team of experts in NLP/ML at Genpact Analytics. He holds a PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology, an MBA from Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad, and BTech from Indian Institute of Technology-BHU. He has over 15 years of experience in statistical modelling, machine learning and deep learning in various industries such as Semiconductors, Manufacturing, CPG, Healthcare and Lifesciences. He holds 15+ international conference and journal publications, and one US Patent. He has been recognized with various awards at Intel for his contribution to development of efficient operations through data science. At Genpact, he designs and delivers end-to-end scalable data-driven insights and solutions through advanced analytics and programming tools. He champions and communicates the use of machine learning and data science practices to influence business decisions and add value to organization across service lines leadership and business engagements
His past research at Intel Corporation includes equipment failure predictive analysis in semiconductor industry using IoT devices and real-time modelling of manufacturing process for optimizing processor yields. Currently, his research is focused on developing deep learning models for natural language understanding and predictive analytics.