Saad Hanif
House # 964 Street # 29 Sector G-9/1 Islamabad
Summary
A professional data scientist adept at collecting, cleansing, and organizing data for predictive modeling. Proficient in applying advanced statistical modeling techniques to address complex business challenges. Highly organized, motivated, and excellent problem-solver with more than 3 years of experience in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Data Scientist
Afiniti Software Solutions
02.2023 - Current
- Promoted to the role of AI lead for extraordinary performance in reaching the growth targets of the client consistently for one year.
- Built predictive models to optimize the revenue generated from agent/caller interactions inside call centers, including the use of Decision Trees, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, and Bayesian Mean Regression.
- Implemented new artificial intelligence methodologies and ran simulations to boost performance of existing machine learning models.
- Used Decision trees (Rpart, LGBM) and supervised learning methods to create groupings for modeling features.
- Exhibited leadership by spearheading the AI team and collaborating with data analytics, and cross-functional teams to understand the clients’ operational strategy and its consequent impact on the production environment.
- Conducted research about the developments in Data Science and adjacent fields to ensure that outputs are always relevant.
Data Scientist II
Afiniti Software Solutions
Islamabad
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Performed data cleaning and feature engineering to create new modeling features which improved model performance by 5%.
- Visualized the performance of data models in R and Python to derive actionable insights and deliver maximum revenue for the clients.
- Performed root cause analysis to debug low model performance and proposed alternate solutions which improved the monthly gain by 3%.
- Developed and automated alerts to monitor the production environment which reduced the response time by 15%.
- Implemented statistical inference tests to identify relationships among key features which optimized model performance.
- Communicated with multiple teams to align the AI goals with the client, and strategized AI modeling to further enhance performance.
- Showed resilience and calmness to counter difficult situations in events of below target gain, and proactively implemented solutions to achieve targets.
Analyst Software Engineer
Afiniti Software Solutions
Islamabad
02.2021 - 01.2022
- Worked tirelessly in the AI team to achieve 8% gain target for Telefonica Brazil by optimizing the model performance by implementing feature engineering using R, SQL and Excel.
- Successfully performed migration to an updated version of AI infrastructure which resulted in 5% increase in the revenue of the client.
- Prepared scripts to extract and manipulate data in order to track essential KPIs.
- Actively worked on improving the rankings of agents for better pairing with clients' customers by using special AI features to detect differences in performance.
- Successfully deployed a new client after collaborating with multiple teams by setting up the pipelines for the deployment.
Education
Master of Science - Finance And Investment
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, United Kingdom09-2020
Bachelor of Science - Economics And Mathematics
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
Lahore, Pakistan06-2019
Skills
- My SQL, PostgreSQL
- R
- Python
- C
- Tableau
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Analysis
- Deep Learning
- Data Visualisation
- Data Mining
- Data Modeling
- Analytical Problem Solving
Accomplishments
- Working Smart Award - Certificate of appreciation awarded by the CTO of Afiniti Software Solutions.
- Nottingham University Business School Scholarship - 75% scholarship award for achieving excellent grades in undergraduate degree.
- LUMS Merit Scholarship - 100% scholarship for achieving first position in Mushtaq Gurmani School of Social Sciences at the end of first academic year 2015-2016 at LUMS.
- Abdul Razzak Dawood Award - Overall third position in the batch at the end of first academic year at LUMS.
- A’ Level Merit Scholarship - 100% scholarship in Advanced Level from Beaconhouse School System Islamabad for excellent grades in GCSE O levels and A’ level first year respectively.
Timeline
Sr. Data Scientist
Afiniti Software Solutions
02.2023 - Current
Data Scientist II
Afiniti Software Solutions
02.2022 - 01.2023
Analyst Software Engineer
Afiniti Software Solutions
02.2021 - 01.2022
Master of Science - Finance And Investment
University of Nottingham
Bachelor of Science - Economics And Mathematics
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
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