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Risha Raj

Risha Raj

Data Scientist
Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Data Scientist with managerial experience at HSBC, specializing in machine learning and predictive modeling across Healthcare, IT, Networking, and Banking domain. Successfully developed credit risk models, enhancing portfolio performance. Proficient in Python and SQL, with strong analytical skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Committed to driving data-driven decision-making and innovation.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Data Scientist - Manager

HSBC
Bengaluru
06.2023 - Current
  • Developed and implemented a credit card behavior score model for Marks & Spencer (M&S) Bank,
    leveraging machine learning techniques to assess customer risk and optimize credit strategies.
  • Utilized historical transaction data, payment patterns, and credit utilization metrics to enhance predictive
    accuracy.
  • The model improved risk segmentation, enabling more precise credit limit adjustments, proactive fraud
    detection, and better delinquency management.
  • Developed and documented the Secured Essential Expenditure Model for affordability assessment in retail
    mortgage applications of HSBC customers.
  • Designed the model using neural network and ML to predict applicant expenditure across key categories.
  • Conducted model testing, validation, and performance monitoring to ensure accuracy and regulatory
    compliance.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate both models into decision-making systems, leading to
    improved portfolio performance and reduced default rates.

Data Scientist - Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
09.2020 - 05.2023

Cisco

  • Automation using ML for Sales Compensation/ Reporting
    for Competitive Intelligence Team/GCP deployment.
  • Creating BERT embeddings for text based data for the
    purpose of calculating similarities.
  • Performed predictive analysis using machine learning
    models and presented dashboards to client based on the
    predicted results.
  • Integrating ML model with a rule based model.
    Collating data from multiple sources, processing the data
    in PyCharm and Snowflake and creating Tableau
    dashboard.

Data Scientist - Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
Pune
08.2018 - 08.2020

AstraZeneca

  • Data Extraction through NLP.
  • Worked extensively on HRM, a Human Reading Mimicking
    module which mimics the way humans read and interpret
    an unstructured text.
  • Utilised HRM to extract text based entities and their
    relationships from medical forms.
  • Preprocessing using Spacy and NLTK.
  • Built Supervised Machine Learning Models for
    classification.

Data Science Intern

Tata Consultancy Services
Bengaluru
11.2017 - 03.2018
  • Performed an experimental study of classifying dialogue
    acts using 3 multi domain datasets.
  • Classification using various machine learning algorithms.
  • LinearSVC, Stochastic Gradiet Descent, Multinomial
    Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Neural
    Network, Multilayer Perceptron.
  • Performed count vectorization and Tf-Idf on the dataset.

Education

Master of Science - Big Data Analytics

St. Joseph's College
Bengaluru, India
06.2016 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Science - Statistics, Mathematics, Economics

St. Joseph's University
Bengaluru, India
06.2013 - 04.2016

Skills

  • SAS

  • Python

  • SQL

  • Pyspark

  • Tableau

  • Snowflake

Timeline

Data Scientist - Manager

HSBC
06.2023 - Current

Data Scientist - Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
09.2020 - 05.2023

Data Scientist - Associate

Tata Consultancy Services
08.2018 - 08.2020

Data Science Intern

Tata Consultancy Services
11.2017 - 03.2018

Master of Science - Big Data Analytics

St. Joseph's College
06.2016 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Science - Statistics, Mathematics, Economics

St. Joseph's University
06.2013 - 04.2016
Risha RajData Scientist