Charu is a seasoned machine learning and big data technology leader with over 14 years of experience and a proven track record of demonstrating the art of possible with data and building data science teams that deliver innovative data products and strategies to bring a step change in total opportunity (Revenue/ Savings). Hands on leader with experience leveraging big data in many verticals like Optimizing Industrial operations (think IoT + Machine Learning) , retail merchandise planning, loyalty marketing optimization, digital analytics, customer insights development, category insights development, customer segmentation, social media analytics, supply chain modeling and optimization, inventory optimization . Specialties: Data Mining, Predictive Analytics, Customer Insight, Category Insight, Business Analytics, SPSS Modeler, SPSS Statistics, SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Server, Modelling and Optimization, Math Programming,Supply Chain Network optimization, Metaheuristic Algorithms, Databases,Decision Tree, Neural Network, PCA, Factor Analysis, Machine Learning, Customer Insights, Segmentation, Clustering, Analytics,Customer Lifetime Value, Assortment Planning, Retail
Vice President, Engineering and Data Science at Loblaw Digital
M.Eng Design, Process Control