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Kaukab Enayet Syed 
Focus areas: NLP, Time Series, LLMs & Probabilistic modelling




EDUCATION

 

 

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, MN

 

 

Master of Science in Business Analytics (Quantitative Methods and Mgmt. Science)

(Full-time, on-campus)

 

May 2016

 

 

 

Z H College of Engg. & Tech, Aligarh, India

 

 

Bachelor of Tech in Computer Engg.

(Full-time, on-campus)

 

May 2006

 

 

 


KEY EXPERIENCE


NETSKOPE – Sr. Staff ML Scientist – Bangalore             Dec-2022 – present 

AI Labs 

    • Developed anomaly detection for http network traffic data, using the multivariate time-series model based transformer architecture – to detect the software failures [link]. 
    • Trained Deep learning model with low latency to create a generic guardrail for GenAI applications (LLM based applications) that classifies the GenAI raw traffic 
      • Feature engineering and model inference pipeline was transitioned in C++ framework to reduce the latency and model-size 
      • URL embedding model was developed to augment the HTTP traffic classification types 
      • Developed framework to automate rule generation using the DL model 

    • Developed RAG pipelines for tasks on Topic Modelling & Question-answering system 
      • Using LLM such as gemini, claude, & QWEN 
    • Trained ML model for Image classification for Data Loss prevention use-case and deployed using ONNX C++ transformation 

 

Citrix – Principal Data Scientist   -   Bangalore

Jan-2021 - Dec-2022

 

Application security

  • User behavior probabilistic modelling to prevent sign-on DDoS attacks 
  • Developed prototype unsupervised model/method to detect supply-chain bot attacks on e-commerce/ticket portal from web-log data 
    • Identified shopping portal URL structure using transition matrix 

 

 

AMAZON – Research Scientist   -   Berlin

Aug-2019 – Dec-2020

 

Seattle, WA

  Nov-2017 – July-2019

 

Payments and Fraud analytics – Amazon Web Services

·         Designed and trained account risk scoring machine learning model to stop fraudster from using AWS service. This model helped in reducing 10% of manual tasks.

·         Developed NLP/ML model using word embeddings and classification models for detecting fraudulent websites. This model will help in reducing fraud attacks and creating robust rules for emerging fraud patterns.

·         Created optimization tool to balance between customer friction, and fraud operational expense – to reduce customer friction with minimum impact on operating expense.

·         Created data-shift detection scheme – using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, standardized difference, and KL Divergence metric – to notify the emerging pattern on a week-to-week basis.

 

Digital Apps and games – Amazon.com

·         Developed text matching algorithm for billion possible combination – submitted white paper in Amazon internal conference. This helped in improving the matching accuracy by 20%.

·         Developed the prototype to detect the possibility of sales spike, based on social media text and historical sales data - using NLP and deep learning algorithms

o   Developed recurrent neural network (RNN) to identify sales peak using MxNet

·         Designed and developed prototype for advertisement keyword generation using tf-idf, page-rank and pos tagging algorithm.  The top result helped in finding new AdWords thus reducing manual work of AdWords creation.

 

 

Walmart Labs – Statistical Analyst - Bentonville, AR

June-2016 – October-2017

 

·         Developed price impact model, in Hadoop-R framework.

o   A regression-based elasticity/cross-elasticity model at Item-Market area level

o   This helped in various price investment strategy to increase revenues in various categories

·         Trained fixed effect model to assess impact of feature-promotion, and asses where the promotion should be executed. It helped in improving the campaigns execution by a lift of 5%.

·         Designed vulnerability management automation, based on machine-learning on Py-Spark framework – selected for Walmart’s internal conference. This helped in reducing 4 manpower of efforts required in ticketing system.

·         Conducted several ad-hoc, ML analysis for space/shelf optimization, root cause analysis, cannibalization etc.

                                                                                     

 

Carlson Analytics Lab - Data Scientist Intern

January-2016 – May 2016

 

·         Developed a predictive/classification model for a Fortune 100 consumer electronics retail firm- to assign the customers (100 million records) into the most likely segment, segments related to technology affinity. The solution was developed using SAS enterprise-miner, and involved attribute selection from 10,000 attributes, imputing missing values, and machine learning models.

 

 

Deloitte Consulting Pvt LTD, Bangalore, India – Consultant (Data Analyst)

November 2013 April 2015

 

·         Developed reports to measure the vendor’s performance in terms of time and other item attributes to maintain lean inventory for Donaldson Inc

·         Developed SQL reports for picking and shipping process for Donaldson Inc

 

 

ORACLE INDIA PVT LTD, Bangalore, India - Staff Consultant (Data Analyst)

July 2011 July 2012

 

·         Developed various supplier performance reports and web tools for ACT

·         Developed demand forecasting using Oracle-Demantra for a manufacturing company to schedule supplier orders and work-order creation to maintain lean inventory.

 

 

TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE, India and USA

 

 

 

IT Analyst                           

June 2006 January 2011

 

·         Designed and developed Supply Chain Management process for Cummins Inc

o   Work order (engine manufacturing) plan creation based on forecasting and sales order to maintain lean inventory (JIT)

o   Sales and Work order pegging(matching) – to have best fit based on order’s requested ship-date, and scheduled engine manufacturing completion date.

o   Automated the generation of Barcode reporting at various shipping process to provide failsafe mechanism such as right order is getting loaded in right truck

o   Inventory management automation based on various signals such backflush, Kanban signals – mini IOT

 

Other fulltime affiliations

 

Senior Software Engineer – Accenture

Jan-2011, to Jun-2011

MBA Drop-out, The State University of New York at Buffalo

Aug-2012, to Dec-2012

ERP Advisor - Dell International Services

Feb-2013, to Nov-2013

 

Tools, Languages, and others

 

Python, R, Py-Spark, Rapid-Miner, JMP, SQL-PL/SQL, Java, C, C++, Hadoop HDFS, Hive, SAS-enterprise miner

 


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