Wells Fargo

Senior Data Scientist, GenAI and LLMs

Data Dam

• Offer custom analytics, informatics and data science services. Present and past clients include:

- Diversigen
- Loop Genomics
- Black Onyx Management
- Oplytix
- Infinity Systems
- FEI

• Previously, led product and business development efforts of an AI-powered, question-answering platform using large language models (LLMs).
Identified and developed several use cases in biotech, pharmaceutical, finance and CPG industries.

Co-Founder

1865 Analytics

Sabanto

Involved in data science projects to support the development of autonomous tractors. Examples:
- Analysis of bagfiles to determine braking distance of tractors
- Experimentation with AWS SageMaker to scale bagfile analysis
- Adjusting turn/transit speed through path planner
- Exploring semantic segmentation for object detection

Lead Data Scientist

Microsoft

Served the Flip community.

AI/ML areas:
Computer Vision (CV), Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Business functions:
Growth and Marketing, Trust and Safety, Recommendation and Search

Senior Applied Scientist Manager

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Analyzed gene variant and clinical data from Genomics England Database to inform rare disease strategy.

Bioinformatician

Near Wellness LLC

• Co-founded an e-commerce business centered around health, nutrition and wellness products.
        - Led a team of 2 for website development, inventory management and online
marketing.
         - Sold the e-commerce store after running it for almost 2 years.

• Secured funding from University of Minnesota and established collaboration with a manufacturer to
create our own line of nutritional products (protein bites).

Founder

Eaton

Led the development of several AI products to support pricing, operations and finance. Examples:

       • Software solution to predict screw-in cartridge valves prices with an average +/- $30 accuracy using latest AI algorithms.
       • Recommender system for product managers to classify unassigned hydraulics parts representing about $120m in annual revenue.
       • Web-application enabling plant engineers to identify cut lengths in coils using constraint based optimization techniques.

Data Scientist, Business Analytics

Diversigen, Inc.

Worked with a talented group of software engineers and data science professionals to develop fast, cost-effective and reliable analytics solutions. Our clients ranged from academic institutes and hospitals to large corporations and startups operating in the diagnostic, healthcare, agriculture, direct-to-consumer and environmental monitoring industries.

Bioinformatician, Data Science

Genentech

Identified commercial problems, conceptualized analytical solutions and lead the development of appropriate software products. Examples: 

          • Design and implementation of marketing mix model to identify key promotional activity drivers of sales for products representing $10 B in revenue.
          • Development of a Natural Language Processing tool for thematic categorization of patient call activity.
          • KPI tracker development in PySpark for longitudinal analysis of renal cancer patients.

Manager, Portfolio Analytics (Data Science)

• Led biomarker discovery efforts for respiratory diseases through data science using statistical techniques like clustering, generalized linear and penalized regression models (e.g. lasso/elastic nets).
• Contributed to the testing of a machine-learning based R package to assist in quality control process of targeted mass spectrometry data replacing error-prone manual process.
• Developed an R shiny application to perform statistical analysis and visualization of proteomics data aiding the process of companion diagnostic development.

Computational Biologist (Contractor)

NLP/LLMs experience in biotech, manufacturing, software and banking industry. Always up for a new adventure. Hit me up at: 

ali[dot]faruqi[at]datadam[dot]io

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