Nitendra Rajput VP and Head of Mastercard’s AI Garage
Nitendra Rajput works as Vice President and Head of AI Garage Center in India at Mastercard where he defines and leads the data science and machine learning work for all divisions of Mastercard such as IT, sales, marketing, HR, and many others including the transactions related data for Mastercard. Before joining Mastercard in June 2019, Nitendra spent two years heading the Data Science team of Info Edge as an Executive Vice President where his work spanned different businesses of Info Edge (naukri, jeevansathi, 99acres), powering large-scale, real-time applications in recruitment, dating and real-estate online portals. Prior to this, Nitendra was at IBM Research for 18 years, managing the mobile and AI agenda for IBM Research in India.
With over 20 years of experience, Nitendra is an expert in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Mobile Interactions, having authored over 80 publications at top international ACM and IEEE venues, owing to which he has been recognized as an ACM Distinguished Scientist, ACM Distinguished Speaker (2015) and a senior IEEE Member. He has delivered several tutorials and conducted workshops in AI and speech areas at top ACM venues (MobileHCI, IUI, CSCW, CHI). With over 50 granted patents to his name, Nitendra was an IBM Master Inventor and was also an IBM Academy of Technology member. In 2012, he co-authored a book titled “Speech in Mobile and Pervasive Environments” that was published by John Wiley & Sons.
At Mastercard, he works on applying deep learning algorithms such as LSTM, CNN, AutoEncoders, GBMs and GAN along with conventional machine learning algorithms such as decision trees, SVMs and HMMs to solve business problems around recommender systems, anomaly detection, time-series modelling, spam detection, question-answering systems, auto-suggesters, and process-automation. His role is to work with the business divisions to identify ML/AI opportunities in the organisation, define technical solutions, work with his team to build state-of-the-art solutions and work with the engineering team to have the algorithms deployed in real environments.
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