PRAKHAR GUPTA

Leadership & Strategic Impact:

• Lead and mentor a global team of 30+ data scientists, analysts, and consultants across multiple time zones, driving talent development, performance management, and career progression
• Partner with senior leadership across top pharmaceutical companies to lead AI-driven transformation initiatives spanning drug discovery, clinical trial design & execution, regulatory submissions, and commercial operations
• Architect and deploy enterprise-grade AI/GenAI platforms supporting end-to-end pharmaceutical R&D workflows, delivering measurable ROI and 30-40% reduction in development timelines
• Drive multi-million-dollar AI solution portfolios, championing production deployment across drug development lifecycle with proven business impact
• Establish best practices and methodologies for data science project delivery and excellence

AI Solution Architecture & Delivery:

• Orchestrate end-to-end development and deployment of production-scale AI solutions spanning 6–18-month development cycles
• Currently leading development of multiple projects and programs across clients, with key focus on developing GenAI platforms to automate clinical document authoring, and enabling semantic data layers that understand underlying data and enable seamless integration with chatbots, self-serve analytical tools, and other AI applications
• Productized Smart Clinical Intelligence Chatbot: Developed and deployed AI-powered conversational system serving 1000+ users daily, capable of analyzing queries across business domains and generating answers from both structured data (CTMS systems) and unstructured sources (trial documents, FAQs, domain knowledge)
• Clinical Trials Knowledge Graph: Architected enterprise-scale knowledge graph using SPOG design principles, integrating multi-source clinical trial data (ClinicalTrials.gov, Citeline, Cortellis) with full data lineage tracking, serving as critical competitive intelligence platform for pharmaceutical R&D
• Champion enterprise AI governance frameworks ensuring scalability, compliance, and ethical AI deployment across pharmaceutical R&D operations
• Advanced Data Science Consultant (July 2019 – Dec 2021) → Manager (Dec 2021 – Present)

Scaled AI Platform Development:

• Architected and scaled AI-powered knowledge automation platform from prototype to production, serving enterprise clients across different domains
• Led cross-functional team developing conversational AI, contextual search, and knowledge graph technologies
• Built production-grade AI systems processing millions of documents and conversations daily with 99.9% uptime

• Developed and deployed production-scale NLP pipelines using traditional NLP techniques and regex patterns to extract key financial information from diverse document types
• Built machine translation systems and language identification algorithms achieving 98% accuracy across 27 languages
• Developed pipeline to scrape websites and identify (classify) documents and pages containing relevant financial information (such as press releases, earnings releases)