Ayan Chandra

Staff Data Scientist

Compile India•  December 2022 - Present

Working on interesting and challenging problems using Pharmaceutical and healthcare data.

Director of Engineering

Stere Inc•  May 2022 - November 2022

As team Vaartani moved to Stere, I was assigned the new role. Domain: Technology for embedded insurance, Internal Policy Admin System, connectivity with External PAS, etc. On Technology: • Solution Architecture of embedded insurance product. • Technology Integration with various Insurance interface services and PAS systems. On Product side: • Laid out the suggested data model and flow for Unified API product, Business information API • Rating, Questionnaire data etc. Bid adieu to the organization to pursue more data-intensive opportunity in a relatively large organization.

Chief Technology Officer

Vaartani•  April 2020 - May 2022

At Vaartani, we are building an AI-powered Managing General Agency (MGA) for insurance coverages to eCommerce businesses. We plan to provide commercial general liability insurance coverage to Amazon sellers tailored for their unique risk exposures. We only need their store name on Amazon to instantly generate insurance quotes, with our proprietary AI underwriting solution. Vaartani is backed by both insurance and technology focused accelerators - Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA), SOSV, and Startupbootcamp. Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vaartani Vaartani participated in Insurtech NY Spring 2022 Conference (InsurTech Early Stage Competition) as one of the finalists Domain: Technology Leadership in a Digital Insurance Agency, Technology for Underwriting in Insurance companies, Risk and Compliance identification, AI in Insurtech. Responsibilities: • Responsible for Technology Management in the Digital Insurance Agency. • Responsible for Solution Architecture design, planning the strategy for development and releases. • Responsible for leading the development of models and solutions that help in underwriting for insurers and re-insurers offering commercial lines and small business insurance to e-commerce sellers. • Leading the development of various compliance models for products sold on e-commerce marketplaces. • Leading the Technology Integration with various Insurance interface services and exchange platforms.

AI Engineer

Vaartani•  March 2020 - April 2020

Domain: Natural language processing for risk management, Proof of Concept design and development of models.

Research fellow

IIT Kharagpur•  December 2018 - December 2019

Project: "Development of Legal text mining system for Common Law House" (LTH). Areas: Natural language processing, Information Retrieval, Text Mining

Project Officer(IT)

IIT Kharagpur•  July 2016 - October 2017

Project: National Digital Library of India (NDL - BNA), Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy (SRIC), IIT Kharagpur. Domain: Meta-data engineering, Mobile application development, Project analysis, Research & Development. Projects worked on: - Initially: Was part of Data Acquisition Team (Meta-data Engineering), Meta- data crawling and harvesting. Technologies Involved: Java with JSoup, Shell script, XML. - Was part of UI Team along with QA.Technologies Involved: AngularJS, HTML5, CSS. Javascript. For testing: Java, Nightwatch.js. - Lead the development of Android app for the project, maintenance and bug- fixing, Technologies Involved: Java, Android Studio, Gradle, Sqlite. - Bulk mailer automation with Sendgrid integration.Technologies Involved: PHP 7, Postgres, Cron. - Sitemap generation automation. Technologies Involved: PHP 7, Java, Postgres. - Error log analysis portal. Technologies Involved: Javascript, Angular, Nodejs, Mongodb, Express.

IIT, Kharagpur (Indian Institute of Technology)

Computer Science & Engineering, MS•  January 2017 - April 2022

Grade: 9.24Grade: 9.24 Coursework credited: -Speech and Natural Language Processing -Machine Learning/Pattern Recognition -Algorithms Design and Analysis (Graduate Level) -Information Retrieval. Coursework audited: Deep Learning Broader area of research: Text mining. Term projects as part of coursework : -Psycholinguistic study of code-mixing -Development of meta-serarch engine. Teaching Assistantship: -Algorithms Design and Analysis (Graduate level) Course -Algorithms-I -Programming and Data Structures lab. Research: Research focus: Application of Natural Language Processing on legal texts. Publication as part of the thesis: “Towards Reducing the Pendency of Cases at Court: Automated Case Analysis of Supreme Court Judgments in India”, Accepted at JURIX 2021.