About Me

Amit Dhanda is currently senior scientist at Amazon. He has extensive experience building AI/ ML models to solve business and research problems. At Amazon, he leads forecasting worldwide operations financial metrics and leverages generative AI models on structured and unstructured data. Prior to Amazon, he was the Director of Data Science at Adore Me (acquired by VS), where he led the launch of ML-based product recommendation models and led website optimization experiments with C-suite. Before that, he was the Manager of Decision Science at EXL, leading a team of scientists building ML models for subscriber growth and engagement. Amit started his career as an Analytics Manager at Thomson Reuters where he built NLP based text classification models for Fortune 500 companies before relocating to the US in 2015.

Education

• Master of Science, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Columbia University, New York, US

• Bachelor of Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

Awards

• Mentor Masterminds at Amazon, 2024

• GenAI hackathon winner at Amazon, 2023

• Best science project in Fintech at Amazon, 2022

• First employee for Management Rotation Program at Thomson Reuters, 2014

• “Best Analytics Leader” at Thomson Reuters, 2013

Technical Committee Member

• International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (since 2024)

• Computing Conference (since 2024)

• Intelligent Systems Conference (since 2024)

• Future Technologies Conference (since 2024)

Science Reviewer

• Amazon Machine Learning Conference (since 2024)

• Amazon Stores Science Conference (since 2024)

• Computing Conference (since 2024)

• Intelligent Systems Conference (since 2024)

• Future Technologies Conference (since 2024)

• International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering

Mentorship

• Topmate

• Upnotch

Publications

• Google Scholar

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