Summary
Nikhil Kohli is a Senior Data Scientist with 7 years of experience applying statistical machine learning, deep learning, and advanced NLP to business problems across finance, marketing, and document understanding. He holds an MS in Data Science from Northeastern and has moved from hands-on model development at Kodak Alaris—where his transfer-learning and OCR pipelines saved ~$400K annually—to AI roles at Fidelity’s Center of Excellence. Comfortable across end-to-end pipelines, Nikhil builds productionized solutions from POCs to deployment, including sequence-to-classification, encoder-decoder translation, and multi-touch attribution systems. He pairs strong mathematical foundations with pragmatic product focus, often blending computer vision and NLP to tackle noisy, real-world documents and time series tasks. Outside core responsibilities he has taught algorithmic digital marketing and driven vendor-risk NLP research, signaling an aptitude for translating technical models into organizational impact.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems (Data Science), GPA - 3.84/4, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems (Data Science), GPA - 3.84/4 at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Honors), Electronics and Communications Engineering, GPA - 3.5/4, Bachelor of Technology - BTech (Honors), Electronics and Communications Engineering, GPA - 3.5/4 at Guru Nanak Dev University
English, Punjabi, Hindi