Data Scientist | Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analytics
Hello! I am a data scientist with remote sensing applications and geospatial analytics expertise. With over 5 years of experience in solving diverse sets of problems, I work in business consulting helping clients across practice areas ranging from Climate and Sustainability to Consumer Goods. In the past, I have held research positions to help better understand our planet with data.
Toronto, Canada
ACADEMIC CAREER
Aug 2019 - July 2020
MS in Geographic Information Science
and Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Advanced Quantitative Methods, Database Systems, Remote Sensing, GIS System Design & Mgmt
Aug 2014 - May 2018
Bachelors in Planning
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, India
Predictive Analytics
Spatial Networks
Crop Mapping
Mapping Slums
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Analyst, GeoAnalytics
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Designed random forest based propensity model, achieving 85\% accuracy in predicting postpaid customer transitions to fiber network. Improved marketing ROI for a South Asian telco company during fiber service launch
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Analyzed broadband access for 6M US households to guide state funding allocation, uncovering a 17% premium paid by low-income households for lower internet speeds than advertised
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Designed methodology to attribute \$sales transference from closed stores to nearby locations and eCommerce platforms, enabling data-driven decisions on closures and relocations in absence of cross-shopping data
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Optimized sales territories for beverage distributor client using GoogleOR, reducing travel time by 15% and saving $1.2M in logistics costs
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Identified new store opportunities for apparel company by analyzing store performance \& quantifying sales headroom
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Built fertilizer sales strategy to expand sales reach by 30\% using soil, crop, and yield insights with a bottom-up farm-level dossier of 100M+ farms
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Designed efficient data processing pipeline by integrating 20+ sources with MySQL, Python, and Tableau, saving 5 weeks of effort
RESEARCH SCIENTIST 1
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Piloted development of Utility Vegetation Management System by identifying individual tree risks using stereo data
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Calculated surface reflectance from top of atmosphere values using ACOLITE for various sensors within 3% error
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Detected CO2 emissions from natural gas and mineral plants using hyperspectral data within 450PPM error
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Collaborated with experts from 4 organizations for onsite spectral and physical data collection over Lake Okeechobee, FL.
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Quantified Nitrogen and Phosphorus concentration in Water and Soil using high spatial and spectral resolution data.
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Estimated methane concentration from super GHG emitters using Landsat8 and Sentinel data.
PROJECT SCIENTIST, R&D
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT
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Curated R package to streamline analysis & visualization of spatial-networks, enabling mapping of information flow
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Quantified freedom in world countries by deploying self-organizing maps techniques with 30+ socioeconomic indexes
GEO SPATIAL INTERN
Delhi Slum Maps- Quantified housing situation of lower-income groups in Delhi by generating slum footprints. Established that only 0.6 % of land area caters to 11-30% of the city population.
Tacit Urban Research Network- Explored navigation practices used by the residents in a dense auto construct settlement. Evaluated how formal urban planning practices fail to explain tacit embedded in such practices.
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Created Network datasets of countrywide railway lines for testing network analogies.
Developed delivery network for fertilizer delivery with assigned payloads.
REMOTE SENSING INTERN
Conducted various raster calculations for calculating farmpond location.
Generated thematic maps for representing various factors associated with the calculations.