{"id":1370,"date":"2022-02-10T18:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/speakers\/shayne-kavanagh-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-02-10T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:35:27","slug":"naman-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meetings.informs.org\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/speakers\/naman-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Naman Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1370\" data-postid=\"1370\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1370 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row dropPadding-bottom tb_niao825 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-1 tb_p4w2826 first\">\n                    <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_iyy0827 image-top  track decisionRisk tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wordpress\/analytics2022\/files\/2022\/02\/namanGandhi.jpg\" title=\"Naman Gandhi\" alt=\"Naman Gandhi headshot\">    \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n        <div class=\"image-content\">\n                    <h3 class=\"image-title\">\n                                    Naman Gandhi                            <\/h3>\n                    <\/div>\n    <!-- \/image-content -->\n        <\/div>\n<!-- \/module image -->        <\/div>\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col4-3 tb_62q7828 last\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_cjrf828   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h1>Naman Gandhi<\/h1>\n<h5>Data Science Manager at ZS<\/h5>\n<p>Naman is a Data Science Manager in the ZS\u2019s Seattle office and has ~10 years of data science and advanced analytics experience with a focus across Consumer and Travel &amp; Hospitality practice. He works closely with clients on formulating and designing varied structured and unstructured data analytics solutions powered using Machine Learning techniques to enable greater commercial effectiveness. Naman\u2019s area of expertise center on statistical modelling, forecasting, bayesian techniques, computer vision, recommender system, and deep learning techniques. 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