Prashant Rai
Senior Staff Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPrashant Rai is a Senior Staff Data Scientist based in San Francisco with nine years of industry experience and a PhD in applied mathematics focused on statistical learning. He builds production-ready ML solutions across aerospace, energy, retail, and heavy machinery domains, with strengths in multivariate time series, anomaly detection, and risk quantification. Prashant’s research expertise in low-rank tensor decompositions drives practical methods for high-dimensional regression and stochastic-function approximation that he translated from academia at Ecole Centrale Nantes and Sandia National Labs into patented industrial applications at Caterpillar. At Baker Hughes and Albertsons he has scaled analytics for operational decision-making, and he has led teams that bridge scientific rigor with deployable engineering. Colleagues describe him as a researcher-engineer who turns advanced multilinear algebra into robust, interpretable models for real-world IoT and forecasting problems.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Mechanical Engineering, First class with distinction, BE, Mechanical Engineering, First class with distinction at University of MumbaiMaster’s Degree, Computational (Applied) Mechanics, Master’s Degree, Computational (Applied) Mechanics at Ecole Centrale Nantes
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
options-trading6
trading6
cryptocurrency5
binance5
finance5
algorithmic-trading4
trading-bot4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pmrai/options_trading
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
This is my insight project for options trading
Contributions:14 commits, 8 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 5 months
algorithmic-tradingtrading-bottradingtrading-strategiesoptions
pmrai/gpt_share
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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