Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Key Publications
Talks And Recognition
Reviewer And Editorial Contributions
Google Scholar
Core Expertise
Timeline
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Shruti Kaushik

Senior Data Scientist | AI Practitioner in Pharma & Healthcare
Gurugram,

Summary

Experienced AI professional with 11+ years of proven impact in the pharmaceutical, clinical, and healthcare domains. Specialized in developing end-to-end AI solutions, with leading initiatives in GenAI and emerging Agentic AI systems for clinical trials. Demonstrated ability to execute innovative projects across modalities—text, video, audio, and imaging—while mentoring teams, influencing strategy, and representing organizations at global conferences.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
11
11
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Data Scientist

Syneos Health
11.2020 - Current
  • Strategic Initiatives: Developed Country Ranker Algorithm to prioritize trial geography. Researched and suggested composite scoring methodology for patient and procedure burden calculations.
  • GenAI & Agentic AI: Worked on PoCs using LLMs to develop Protocol Genius- an internal GenAI-powered tool to assist study planning teams. Researching Agentic AI for improving recruitment, site scoring, and trial recommendation.
  • Innovation & Automation: Built AI pipelines for facial detection, redaction, transcription, and video-text alignment. Automated data product workflows in Azure for clinical dashboards, reducing 4-hour manual effort to 10 minutes. Developed end-to-end solutions using AutoML for faster model iterations.
  • Leadership & Collaboration: Mentored junior data scientists, organized hackathons, contributed to strategic roadmap discussions. Co-authored white paper: “AI in Medical Data Review”, collaborated with cross-functional teams. Collaborated with medical coders to develop an application to automate the medical coding process. Delivered invited talk at International Statistics Conference (Sri Lanka), 2024.
  • Recognition: Delivered zero-defect dashboard and automation solutions. Appreciated for turnaround speed and impactful visualizations.

Project Engineer

IIT Mandi (Sponsored by RxDataScience Inc.)
10.2018 - 05.2020
  • Developed and compared advanced models—including ARIMA, Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and ensemble techniques—for blood glucose prediction, benchmarked against the AIDA model.

Project Engineer

IIT Mandi (Sponsored by Purdue Pharma L.P.)
05.2015 - 09.2018
  • Utilized the Truven MarketScan Health database to construct patient journeys for individuals consuming specific pain medications.
  • Predicted medication consumption trends on a daily, gender, and seasonal basis to support healthcare insights.
  • Extracted and cleaned data from KDB+; built a robust pipeline for frequent pattern mining, feature engineering, patient classification, and time-series prediction.

Research Intern

Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
05.2014 - 04.2015
  • Developed a pipeline in R to perform Twitter data mining and sentiment analysis based on real-time streaming of tweets related to Ebola, asthma, pollution, swine flu, and diabetes in the national capital region.

Education

Ph.D. - Computer Science

IIT Mandi
09.2015 - 12.2020

M.Tech - Computer Science

Banasthali University
06.2013 - 05.2015

B.Tech - IT

BRCM College of Engineering
07.2008 - 07.2012

Skills

  • Python
  • R
  • Keras
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • Azure ML
  • AWS SageMaker
  • Databricks
  • Natural language processing
  • Time-series modeling
  • Data Mining

Key Publications

  • Medicine Expenditure Prediction via Variance-Based GAN – IEEE Access
  • AI in Healthcare: Time-Series Forecasting with Ensemble Models – Frontiers in Big Data
  • 15+ peer-reviewed papers in Springer, IEEE, Elsevier across EHR analytics and digital health

Talks And Recognition

  • Women in Machine Learning @ NeurIPS (WiML), 2019, Speaker
  • International Statistics Conference, Sri Lanka, 2024, Invited Speaker
  • Was awarded travel grant by IIT Mandi to present two papers at Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition Conference held at New York, USA, 2019.
  • Invited speaker at Cognitive Modeling Winter School, IIT Mandi, 2020
  • Recipient of Best TA Award, 2019, for extra-ordinary efforts in Data Mining for Decision Making course at IIT Mandi.
  • Gold medal in women’s Table-Tennis, inter-year sports event, IIT Mandi, 2018.
  • Was selected to attend and present a poster at the Data Science Summer School held at Ecole Polytechnique, France (Received travel grant from IIT Mandi, 2017
  • Was awarded with Best player of the year in women’s category for extraordinary performance in the academic session 2016-2017.

Reviewer And Editorial Contributions

  • Reviewer for journals: IEEE Access, Springer Nature, Elsevier, Frontiers, Heliyon
  • Assessed submissions across NLP, time-series modeling, and generative AI

Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=CghcZL0AAAAJ&hl=en

Core Expertise

  • AI for Pharma & Clinical Trials: Trial feasibility, recruitment, patient journey modeling, adverse event predictions
  • GenAI & Agentic AI: Protocol intelligence, document parsing, digital twins, autonomous AI agents
  • ML Engineering: End-to-end pipelines using Azure ML, AWS SageMaker, Databricks, ADF
  • NLP & CV: NER, OCR, PII redaction, transcription, sentiment analysis
  • Data Infrastructure: Azure Blob Storage, Logic Apps, DevOps workflows
  • Dashboards & Visualization: Power BI, custom clinical analytics tools

Timeline

Senior Data Scientist

Syneos Health
11.2020 - Current

Project Engineer

IIT Mandi (Sponsored by RxDataScience Inc.)
10.2018 - 05.2020

Ph.D. - Computer Science

IIT Mandi
09.2015 - 12.2020

Project Engineer

IIT Mandi (Sponsored by Purdue Pharma L.P.)
05.2015 - 09.2018

Research Intern

Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO)
05.2014 - 04.2015

M.Tech - Computer Science

Banasthali University
06.2013 - 05.2015

B.Tech - IT

BRCM College of Engineering
07.2008 - 07.2012
Shruti KaushikSenior Data Scientist | AI Practitioner in Pharma & Healthcare