Vijay Kumar
Principal Data Scientist
Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolVijay Kumar is a Principal Data Scientist with a PhD in Industrial Engineering and nine years of experience building ML, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and generative AI solutions that drive measurable business impact. He has led large-scale AI initiatives at Procter & Gamble that delivered over $70M in global value, including reinforcement learning for bidding and optimization of connected TV spend, and now applies that expertise at Johnson & Johnson. Vijay blends academic rigor—novel importance-sampling algorithms and multi-stage stochastic optimization from his PhD work—with practical systems skills across Python, Spark, Azure, LangChain and RAG pipelines to move research into production. Comfortable with both mathematical optimization tools (GAMS, CPLEX) and modern generative toolkits, he focuses on scalable, cost-efficient AI that speeds insight delivery. Colleagues describe him as a results-oriented problem solver who surfaces non-obvious gains by combining optimization theory with generative workflows.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Industrial Engineering at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of TechnologyMaharashtra Higher Secondary Certificate English Science Maths Geography German, Maharashtra Higher Secondary Certificate English Science Maths Geography German at Abasaheb Garware Junior College
English, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, German
Github Skills (8)
galaxy8
metagenomics8
chip-seq7
sequencing2
genomics1
scalable1
bioconda1
bioinformatics1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
girirajanlab/CN_Learn
Aug 2018 - Jan 2020
CN-Learn
Contributions:87 commits in 1 year 5 months
vijaymp38/CN_Learn
May 2019 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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