RESUME

Name:       Angshuman Saha

Permanent Address:
BL 168, Salt Lake, Sector 2, Calcutta 700091. Phone: 033- 321 3580
Email: adotsaha@yahoo.com

Primary Areas of Interest:
Modeling of real life business problems, Data Mining, Simulation based Models

Educational Background:

• Ph.D. in Statistics in August 1998 from University of Washington, USA.
• Master of Statistics (M.Stat) in August 1994 from Indian Statistical Institute.
  Passed in First Division with distinction.
• Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat) in August 1992 from Indian Statistical Institute.
  Passed in First Division with distinction and awarded for being the best student of 1992 batch.

Software: IBM Intelligent Miner for Data and Text, FoxPro, Oracle, MS-Access, Solver, Crystal Ball, Evolver.
Statistics Software: SAS (Version 8), S-plus, SPSS, Minitab, Matlab, Mathematica
Developed my own Neural Network and Data Mining applications in Excel.

Languages: C, VBA, SQL, Fortran

Current Work Experience: (March '03 - Current )

Working in GE Global Reaserch located at John F. Welch Technology Center , Bangalore, India, as a statistician in Information and Decision Technologies Group. Involved in various data modeling and data mining projects. Recent engagements include predictive modeling for GE Speciality Materials business. Also a part of the team working on image processing and expert systems for GE Oil and Gas business.

Prior Work Experience: (May '01 - February '03 )

Worked in Analytics Center of Excellence (ACoE) of GE Capital in Bangalore, India as an assistant manager. Involved in the analytics of the Real Estate business of GE Capital.

Major Projects in GE Capital:

• Developed simulation models to estimate risk of default of real estate loans. The model simulates occupancy levels in properties under various economic conditions and study its effect on default occurrences on commercial mortgages. Model is used as an important tool for risk assessment at the loan approval stage and for loan pricing.

• Revenue and demand forecasting of self-storage type properties in US. The forecasts were used to set the monthly revenue targets for the managers and the agents.

• GE Capital Real Estate business routinely uses market forecasts provided by external vendors.We have studied the accuracy of these forecats and generated recommendation for adjustments of business decisions based on forecasting accuracy.

• Six Sigma - Green Belt certified with thorough understanding of quality and six sigma framework.

Prior Work Experience: (November '98 - May '01)

Worked in Tata Infotech Limited (TIL) as Senior Technical Specialist - Data Mining and lead the Data Mining grroup from January '00 to May '01.
The responsibilities of the position included - Executing the Data Mining Projects, keeping abreast with the latest research in the areas of Data Mining, gathering thorough understanding of the underlying technologies in Data Mining, training the other group members in these areas, providing Statistics consultancy to other groups in Tata Infotech Ltd.

Major Projects in Tata Infotech Limited:

• Product Development:
  Development of XLMiner - an user friendly software with a wide range of functionality including Statistics, Data Mining, Neural Network, Optimization, Genetic Algorithm. Worked as the technical leader and domain expert for the whole project.
• Training:
  Developed training course on Statistics and Data Mining and conducted internal training.
  

• Lectures / Presentations
  • Delivered lecture on Data Mining for FMCG and Retail Business in Business Intelligence Conference organized by IBM on October 5, 1999 in Mumbai, India.
  • Delivered lecture on Data Mining in Business Intelligence 2000 Conference organized by Trade Fairs and Conferences International, SAS, Compaq, L&T on April 19, 2000 in Mumbai, India.

Prior Work Experience: (December '96 - November '98)

• Conducted training course on Statistical Quality Control to engineers in Kodak, Ireland. Provided consultancy in design of experiments procedures to improve industrial process of manufacturing CD's in Kodak plant of Ireland.

• Acted as a member of the team of Statistics consultants to solve problems brought to the Dept. of Statistics, University of Washington by an US government agency.

Teaching Experience:

• Taught graduate and undergraduate courses in the Dept. of Statistics of University of Washington for three years.
• Lecturer in the Dept. of Statistics , University College Cork, Ireland for one year.

Publication:

• Use of Ridge Regression for Improved Estimation of Kinetic Constants from PET Data. Finbarr O’Sullivan, Angshuman Saha; IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (February 1999, Volume 18, Issue 2)

Honors Received:

• Awarded Indian Statistical Institute Alumni Association medal in 1992 for being the best student of the 1992 batch of the B.Stat degree course.

• Awards from West Bengal government for academic proficiency in Secondary and Higher Secondary.

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