Pouyan R. Fard

Working as a Senior Consultant for AI & Data Science as part of Publicis Groupe, Big Four marketing & media agency, and Sapient, the global consulting company. Projects and activities include: - Marketing mix modeling and demand forecasting based on performance marketing campaigns for global automative company - Business development: designing of algorithmic trading platform for European energy company - Analysis of indusry trends and AI & analytics use cases in cloud computing

Working as a part of Business & Sales team of Applied Intelligence in ASGR area (Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Russia) Projects and activities include: - Merchandising intelligence for international airline company - Human resources analytics for global information technology services company - Financial analytics for European financial institution

- Data scientist conducting activities in data preparation, exploratory data analysis, data modeling leading to recommending actionable insights for 2 consumer behavior studies leading to 5 publications in renowned academic journals/conferences - Managed a team of 3 scientific staff for acquisition of big data (~100,000 entries) from more than 120 participants in consumer behavior study. - Trained over 150 university students for programming, statistical thinking, data-driven approach.

- Experienced natural language processing engineer with extensive research on text mining, semantic analysis, and sentiment analysis of text data in German language which helped the company to shape its business model. - Insightful data analytics professional that helped the business for exploratory data analysis and developed a dashboard for extraction, integration, and visual-ization of data from internal and external sources. - Won the EXIST business grant as a member of the startup team

- Self-initiative learner who built an integrated data pipe-line for extracting, integrating, cleaning, aggregating, and enrichment a big natural language data. - Worked with a database of ~270 million entries - Experience with big data analytics tasks in B2B sales domain - Collaborated closely with a team of sales and data science experts

- Creative medical technologist who developed cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) software combining motion capture technology, and machine learning and established the proof-of-concept for applications in hand movement learning/rehabilitation (Master Thesis) - Developed a VR framework for visualization and analysis of the data from hand movements (Internship)

- Excellent problem-solving skills with experience in development and testing a software for the assessment of user experience with brain-computer interfaces with applications human-computer interaction. - Forward-thinking research intern who gained research experience in developing a software framework for testing different machine learning algorithms for applications in control theory.

- Consultant with strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and entrepreneurial mindset who managed business development activities (RfP response preparation) that led to winning bids for 2 large-scale software projects worth over 500,000 dollars in company revenues. -Sealed strategic partnerships with 4 renonwned software companies worldwide

- Successfully developed a query-by-example information retrieval search engine for audio content - Worked with the company's R&D team consisting of research scientists and software developers on state-of-the-art speech and audio recognition technologies.

Strategic business analytics, marketing analytics, case studies in business analytics with Accenture

Predictive modeling of consumer behavior, human decision making, Bayesian statistics, statistical data analysis, data visualization, scientific writing and presentation, experimental design, data acquisition, project management, teaching

Technical modules: machine learning, artificial intelligence, brain-inspired neural networks, advanced data analysis, advanced statistical methods, Bayesian statistics, virtual reality (VR), human-computer interaction, natural image processing, brain-computer interfaces.

IT foundations, project management, IT strategic management and planning, IT Ethics, e-Commerce, software engineering, computer programming (Java, C++, MATLAB), data structures and algorithm design, signal processing, operating systems, computer architecture, computer networks, database design.