Summary
Abhishek Bishoyi is a data scientist and director with eight years of experience applying machine learning and data mining to marketing, underwriting, safety management, and claims problems in the insurance industry. He holds a PhD in Statistics from the University of Connecticut and developed Bayesian Gaussian-process-based methods during his doctoral work, bringing strong probabilistic modeling expertise to production analytics. At Nationwide and Liberty Mutual, he progressed from predictive modeler to Director I, translating complex statistical ideas into business-facing solutions and governance. He is the author of the CRAN package xgb2sql, signaling a blend of practical ML engineering and attention to deployable tooling. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on consulting experience across multiple statistical software ecosystems. He often bridges research-grade Bayesian approaches with scalable tree-based models to solve real-world insurance problems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistics at University of Connecticut
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Statistics and Informatics, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Statistics and Informatics at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Odia