Mayank Saini

Manager Data Science

Data Scientist with Ph.D. in Computer Science, 3+ years of experience in academics and a 3+ years of
industrial experience in implementing ML and NLP based solutions. Expertise in problem solving.
Excellent in working with business users and colleagues as part of requirements, gathering and
converting their needs into mathematical models and solutions.

Mayanksaini1986@gmail.com +91-8470079997 Gurgaon https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-mayank-saini-1bb0869a

Education Skills
Ph.D. Computer Science Python NLP Text Mining Machine Learning
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2012-2018
Enterprise Search Chatbots Opinion Mining
Thesis title: Opinion Spam Detection: A Computational Approach To Find Deceptive
Opinions By Exploring Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Clues AWS Stanford CoreNLP Azure AI

This work primarily focuses on to build automated opinion spam classifier using NLTK Classification SciKit Learn Keras
various machine learning models by considering various review specific features.
Word2Vec Gensim BERT ELMO
Master of Technology, Computer Science
Elastic Search SQL Spacy TensorFLow
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2010-2012

Thesis Title : Personalized Web Search and Evolutionary Techniques

In this work, we have proposed a framework for personalized web search using
query expansion incorporating thematic context along with user profile using
evolutionary algorithms
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology
AKGEC, UPTU 2004-2008
Work Experience
Manager Data Science
Publicis Sapient Jun 2018 – Present Noida
▪ Key developer of AI research initiative team for NLP track
▪ Leading KaaS platform from conception to production, and continuously
evolve it by adding ML and NLP based functional features to the suite
▪ Successfully developed and delivered AI based chatbot solution to leading
Australian Bank and internal HR team, which reduced their helpdesk tickets
by 80%
▪ Developed Document Insights solution, as part of KaaS offerings by helping
customers to extract and infer insights from multiple enterprise documents
▪ Interact and engage with clients, articulate their business problem, design
delivery roadmaps, quick prototyping and deliver AI solutions
Data Scientist
Crisp Analytics Dec 2017 – Feb 2018 Noida
▪ Key developer of Cognitive eXtraction and Transformation Engine (CXTE)
▪ CXTE provides a unique flexible solution for auto-structuring and
Transformation of Unstructured text data.
Selected Projects
KaaS
▪ Engineering lead of KaaS (an Award winning)
suite of NLP services, such as NER, Paraphrase
detection, Answer Validation, Semantic Re-
ranking, BERT/Bidaf based QnA engine etc.
which serves as a Lego blocks to build AI
solution.
▪
KaaS offers various platforms such as cognitive
search, Cognitive Chatbot, Knowledge Graph etc
… more
Amigo ( AI based information chatbot)
▪ This solution is built using Rasa, an open source
chatbot framework and information is powered
by KaaS cognitive search
▪ Conversational behaviour of chatbot is
implemented using Rasa NLU and Rasa Core
models and business questions are answered
through KaaS, thereby reducing unnecessary
intents and doesn’t require explicit training of
NLU models
▪ It also includes Chatbot analytics solution
providing real time behaviour of chatbot users
▪ Implemented Human in the Loop behaviour to
iteratively augment incorrectly answered
questions by chatbot. It helps SME to discover
new intents, build training data, which improves
the chatbot accuracy over time
 Financial Chatbot
▪ Uses an ensemble model based tool to provide end-to-end solution in
Science, Technology and Medical(STM) publishing domain.
▪ Worked as a consultant to build financial
chatbot for an Australian Bank
Assistant Professor ▪ Chatbot helped to fetch the relevant
National Institute of Technology, Delhi Aug 2017 – Dec 2017 New Delhi information from Expense Reports, recovery
▪ Teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students reports etc. with great freedom to write natural
▪ Build good repo with students through class discussions and academic language queries.
advisement ▪ Bot helped the C-suits to answer at least 70%
of their queries instantly which use to take 24-
48 hours being SMEs in different time zone.
Assistant Professor
IMSEC, Ghaziabad May 2012 – Feb 2014 Ghaziabad
▪ Teaching and supervising undergraduate and graduate students
▪ Guide student in their research and publishing in peer reviewed journals

Recent Research Publications

▪ Kumar, A, Saini, M, Sharan, A. “Aspect category detection using statistical and semantic association.” Computational Intelligence.
Wiley, 2020; 1– 22.
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▪ Saini, Mayank, and Aditi Sharan. "Ensemble Learning to Find Deceptive Reviews using Personality Traits and Reviews Specific
Features." Journal of Digital Information Management 12.2 (2017).
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▪ Saini M, Aditi Sharan "Multi-view ensemble learning using rough set based feature ranking for opinion spam detection" International
Conference on Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences, IC4S-2017, Phuket (Thailand) (Accepted May 2017)
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▪ S. Verma, M. Saini and A. Sharan, "Deep sequential model for review rating prediction," 2017 Tenth International Conference on
Contemporary Computing (IC3), Noida, India, 2017, pp. 1-6.
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▪ Singh, J., Sharan, A., & Saini, M. (2017). Term co-occurrence and context window-based combined approach for query expansion with the
semantic notion of terms. International Journal of Web Science, 3(1), 32-57.

Patent
▪ Singh, J., Saini, M. et el. , “Fuzzy logic based Query expansion method for efficient information retrieval using relevance feedback
approach”, Australia patent 2021101672,May 2020

Awards & Recognition

▪ KaaS Cognitive search platform was awarded runner-up in AIconics, for best Innovation in NLP in 2019
▪ Amigo, an AI based chatbot for HR team developed by our team was awarded runner-up among 45 teams in Publicis Sapient Tech Expo
2019.
▪ Winner for the Publicis Sapient Reward & Recognition in Category “ Embracing Future “ and “Client impact” in 2020.
▪ Recipient of Senior Research fellowship (2015-17) and Junior Research fellowship (2014-15) by University Grant commission.