Summary
Anant Awasthi is a Senior Manager in AI/ML Engineering with over a decade of hands-on experience architecting and operationalizing enterprise-scale AI solutions across healthcare, insurance, and contact center domains. He combines a PhD in Statistics with practical leadership in Responsible AI, building governance frameworks, explainable model monitoring, and cloud migrations that prioritize maintainability and auditability in highly regulated environments. At Optum he led AI efforts for fraud, waste & abuse and medication adherence, shipping production-grade monitoring and XAI tooling while guiding cross-functional teams. He also teaches data science to EMBA students at IIT Patna and maintains an active research profile in AI safety and low-resource ML, bridging academic rigor with product-focused delivery. Known for balancing model sophistication with operational pragmatism, he brings a track record of turning complex regulatory and business requirements into scalable, interpretable AI systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Statistics, Computer Applications, Mathematics at Lucknow Christian College
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Amity University
M.Sc., Biostatistics, M.Sc., Biostatistics at University of Lucknow