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Payal Bhatoa

Bengaluru

Summary

9+ years of experience as a high-impact Senior Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML, known for efficient execution, strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills. LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/in/payalbhatoa

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Data Scientist

LTIMindtree
Bengaluru
10.2023 - Current
  • Designed a customer–product recommendation system to identify high-propensity LIC products within 120 days post-claim, framing the problem as a scalable customer–product binary classification task.
  • Built and deployed multi-model XGBoost architecture (20+ product-specific models) to capture heterogeneous purchase behavior and improve recommendation precision.
  • Applied probability calibration techniques to normalize model outputs across products, enabling reliable cross-product ranking and stable customer-level comparisons.
  • Developed a ranking and decision framework to generate Top-1 and Top-2 recommendations per customer, integrating business eligibility rules (age, income, policy constraints) to ensure operational feasibility.

Senior Data Scientist

LTIMindtree
Bengaluru
10.2023 - Current
  • Designed and implemented end-to-end GenAI pipelines using prompt engineering, embeddings, chunking, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) across insurance and marketing use cases.
  • Benchmarked, evaluated, and selected AWS-hosted LLMs via AWS Bedrock (Claude Sonnet, Claude v2/v2.1, Jurassic Ultra 2) using ROUGE-based metrics, cost, and latency trade-offs.
  • Built schema-aligned prompt frameworks to generate structured, deterministic outputs (Excel / document templates) and reduce hallucinations.
  • Integrated external knowledge sources, VectorDBs, and retrieval workflows to improve contextual grounding and output consistency.

Data Scientist

Lakeside Software
04.2022 - 06.2023

• Built anomaly detection framework using time-series analysis and clustering.

• Developed sensor optimization and alerting systems integrated with Systrack.

Data Scientist

Mashreq Global Services
12.2019 - 04.2022

• Designed Customer Engagement Score improving sales productivity.

• Delivered ML-driven insights to improve customer growth and profitability.

Junior Data Scientist

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 12.2019
  • Identified high-potential customers using Logistic Regression generating $10M+ impact
  • Deployed NLP-based feedback classification model with 85% accuracy
  • Improved usage growth prediction using clustering and XGBoost

Education

M.Sc. Statistics -

NMIMS
01.2016

B.Sc. Statistics -

Delhi University
01.2014

Skills

  • Agentic AI
  • Generative AI
  • AI/ML
  • Python
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Project management

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist

LTIMindtree
10.2023 - Current

Senior Data Scientist

LTIMindtree
10.2023 - Current

Data Scientist

Lakeside Software
04.2022 - 06.2023

Data Scientist

Mashreq Global Services
12.2019 - 04.2022

Junior Data Scientist

Tata Consultancy Services
06.2016 - 12.2019

M.Sc. Statistics -

NMIMS

B.Sc. Statistics -

Delhi University
Payal Bhatoa