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    Svetlana Kharlamova, M.S., Ph.D.

    Svetlana Kharlamova, M.S., Ph.D.

    A PhD quant and Lead Data Scientist (Director level) having an extensive experience, 2 patents, and managerial skills.

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    Experience
    W.W. Grainger
    W.W. Grainger
    Sr. Data Scientist 2016 - 2019 (about 3 years)
    • Ideated and developed predictive model for Customer journey to a purchase using Markov chains, Reinforcement Learning.
    • Paved the way to profitable marketing across... more product categories by creating product recommendation model (clickstream).
    • Ideated the methodology of the Cohesive Real-Time integration MRO omni-channel platform using combination of
    multiple identifiers across devices and touchpoints with data points collected alone the way for smart marketing and recommendations that drive sales and boosts ROI. Behavioral targeting modeling.
    • Dramatically improved a product recommendation engine by developing a model for predicting risk of Revenue decline.
    • Developed semantic match model using NLP, NN, Machine & Deep Learning, Word2/Doc2Vec, Semantic Similarities.
    • People and projects management; interviewing people; working with business partners and intellectual property team.
    • Developed association rules for up- and cross-selling based on viewed and purchased products (clickstream data) that
    significantly improved customer experience on www.grainger.com.
    Drove profitable investment strategies by developing predictive model for Customer acquisition and marketing.
    • Derived a new method based on SVD for working with sparse matrices; developed Web scraping code.
    • Modeled negotiation outcome (Cost Support); developed algorithm for Sentiment Analysis of surveys.
    • PYTHON, Spark, R, Excel VBA, Git/BitBucket, Shiny/Theano/Keras/TensorFlow, Tableau.
    • Developed programmable Recommendation engine for the internal Sales Department.
    • GPU, PyCharm, PyTorch, H2O, VSC, R Server; Data: Teradata, SQL, Hadoop.
    Centro
    Centro
    Predictive Analytics Data Scientist 2014 - 2016 (over 1 year)
    • Established the scope of predictive analytics development for Data Science (DS) team. Have been extensively and actively involved into hiring process: profile selection,... more evaluation of the pre-interview case study tasks, interviews, decision making.
    Have grown DS group from 2 to 5 people; hired three Ph.D. Data Scientists.
    • Leveraged data science to maximize financial performance & boost ROI for social advertising campaigns at Centro and Facebook portfolios. Periodical reports and discussion of results and prioritizations with business leadership.
    • Developed advertiser-publisher scoring system and automotive recommendation system for a programmable media platform by applying CF, SVD, iSVD, LFM, and Markov chains that boosted recommendation quality.
    • Developed Ads Optimization, click prediction, behavioral targeting modeling, and audience models for online advertising
    using Centro's and external data, optimization, clustering and classification algorithms using multiple identifiers across
    devices and touchpoints with data points collected alone the way to build a cohesive, omnichannel view of users.
    • Analysis of user cookie-level data and Real-time bidding data (multi-TB scale) using Amazon S3, Hadoop cluster with Spark, Spark MLLib, Hive and Python.
    • Found new modeling approaches for Real-time bidding via programmatic instantaneous auction, similar to financial markets, to learn problems. Realized it as a software tool that paved the way to profitable click predictions.
    • Performed time series analysis, dynamic linear modeling, content-based recommendation, value-added models,
    and probabilistic record linkage involving Big Data and Machine Learning, Bayesian statistics, probabilities,
    Markov Chain, Monte Carlo techniques.
    • BigData, Hadoop, MapReduce;SQL, Pentaho, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Neo4j, MongoDB, Hive, Cassandra.
    • PYTHON, Spark, R, C#, Excel VBA, Cypher, Matlab.
    Founder
    IQL
    Employee
    Centro, CME Group, CME GROUP, UC BERKELEY, School of Information, pEXCHANGE LLC, XEN.AI, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Information Systems Programs, Walgreen Co., pExchange, pExchange, W.W. Grainger
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    About
    Achievements

    Drove profitable investment strategies by developing predictive model for Customer acquisition and marketing. Ideated and developed predictive model for Customer journey to a purchase using Markov chains, Reinforcement Learning. Paved the way to profitable marketing across product categories by creating product recommendation model (clickstream). Developed semantic match model using NLP, NN, Machine & Deep Learning, Word2/Doc2Vec, Semantic Similarities. Dramatically improved a product recommendation engine by developing a model for predicting risk of Revenue decline. Developed association rules for up- and cross-selling based on viewed and purchased products (clickstream data) that significantly improved customer experience on www.grainger.com. Modeled negotiation outcome (Cost Support); developed algorithm for Sentiment Analysis of surveys. Accomplished the Global Emerging Leader program (Harvard University, Manage Mentor Leadership Solutions).

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    Skills
    Python Customer Relationship Management Social Media Marketing Advertising technology Digital Media Ecommerce AWS Natural Language Processing Education Deep Learning Machine Learning Data Analysis Science Data Modeling Predictive Modeling Artificial Intelligence Algorithms & Data Structures Mathematical Algorithms/Data Analysis
     
    Q&A
    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    travelling

    What's the most creative thing you've ever done?

    my daughter

    Which founders or startups do you most admire?

    Larry Page, Sergey Grin, Steve Wozniak, Jeff Bezos

    What's your super power?

    common sense

    What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

    email, LinkedIn

    What words of wisdom do you live by?

    The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow.
    The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome.
    The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve.
    William Arthur Ward

    What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

    analytics, research, business point of view

    What was the most impactful class you took in school?

    Physics, math, music

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