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Nishant Chandra

Nishant Chandra

Nishant Chandra, NLP and Deep Learning Mentor, Data Science Leader @ AIG, India

Dr. Nishant Chandra has driven machine learning and natural language innovation in BFSI, e-commerce, R&D, and mobile telecom industries in USA and India. He developed and implemented natural language predictive models that are deployed in top banks and telecom companies resulting significant impact across value chain.
For his contributions, Dr. Chandra was acknowledged as the top 10 data scientist in India. He has received the prestigious Barrier fellowship and several other awards and recognition.The Department of Homeland Security, United States Government has classified Dr. Chandra as an outstanding researcher.

He was the conference session chair for GSPx conference at San Jose, California. He has been a reviewer for IEEE transactions, served in the editorial board of Human Language Technology conference, and speaker at several international conferences. He also has five assigned patents and several journal and conference publications. Dr. Chandra is a passionate puzzler who invents puzzles and has represented India in the World Puzzle Championship at Stamford, Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.

DataChat: @drceenish

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant-chandra/