Shantanu Kar

Industry Expert and thought leader in Digital Transformation and AI-ML, NLP based Intelligent Automation. He is University Gold Medalist in Computer Science from AUS, also BITS Pilani and IIM Calcutta Alumni with specializations in AI-ML, DL, NLP, Business Strategy and IT Operations. 

Having overall 15 years of Experience in the IT Industry. Specialized in strategizing Digitization and Automation Roadmaps for Fortune 500 Enterprises. Shantanu has been recognized among top Product Architects of India by NASSCOM in 2013. Pioneer researcher in NLP (Indo-Wordnet, creator of Nepali Wordnet, Hindi-Nepali Machine Translation) and published multiple research papers in International IEEE conferences and Journals. Shantanu is pioneer of Robotics Development Life Cycle (RDLC). 

Vast Experience of setting up Global Cognitive Automation COEs from scratch for large Organizations, with a demonstrated history of working in the Banking, Financial Services and Healthcare Industries. Also having experience of leading multi cloud Technologies (SAAS, PAAS, IAAS) implementations. Proven track record of delivering key Software Development and Automation Programs, very complex architecture design and implementations for large Organizations. 

Shantanu is equally skilled in IT and Business Management. Also he takes keen interest in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Distributed System Development, SDLC, RDLC, Python (TensorFlow, NLTK, OpenCV, Keras), NLP (Semantic Analysis, Wordnet), AI-ML, RPA (Automation Anywhere, UI Path, Power Automate, Assist Edge, Work Fusion etc.), APA (Alteryx), OCR (Abby, Google, Microsoft OCR), Multi Cloud Architecture (Oracle, Salesforce, AWS, Azure DevOps), Oracle Fusion Cloud implementation, Bigdata, Deep Leaning (CNN, RNN, ANN, GNN) and Java/J2EE. Shantanu is Agile and DevOps Professional Coach and having extensive knowledge of Digital Transformation for large enterprises. 

He did his Executive MBA focused on General Business Management and Operations from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and M.Tech in Data Science and Engineering from BITS Pilani. 

• Industry expert for Hyper Automation, Digitization and Product development initiatives. Assisted Enterprises to save over 150M+ in last 15 Years 

• Delivered 1200+ BOTs and 15+ Cloud based Software Products with 18 M+ user base in last 15 years • Awarded by Indian Express- “Data Champion Leadership Award in Artificial Intelligence 2023” 

• Felicitated by IQVIA on February 2023, for setting up “Cognitive Technology COE” 

• Designed and Architected 2 AI/ML enabled cloud-based software products to fast forward clinical trials and enhances customer experience. Assisted clinical research to accelerate COVID-19 vaccine development by comparing millions of data models and patterns using AI-ML. Designed and led a team to develop a Machine Learning based software to ease clinical trials 

• Received two Consecutive “Impact Platinum Awards (Highest Service Award of IQVIA)” for Outstanding Leadership in IT for 2020 and 2021 

• Received GOIQ Star Performance Awards for the Automation Delivered to handle COVID-19 Pandemic Situation • Got CEO Award for exceptional achievements and delivery of key Programs to contribute to the Organization's digital strategy 

• Pioneer in applying Cognitive Technology in IT Infrastructure and Complex Clinical Trails and Life cycle safety for the first time in the Healthcare IT Industry 

• Part of IQVIA’s AI-ML Council, Architecture Review Board, Technical Design and Architecture Review Committee • Nominated as an Advisor to the board of Advisors of Automation Anywhere 

• Received multiple recognitions from COO and fellow VPs, Executive Directors and MDs at Morgan Stanley • Received 5 times best performance award from Sun Microsystems (Currently Oracle) 

• AI/ML, NLP Expert, regarded for creating Nepali-WordNet part of Indo-Wordnet Project and Hindi-Nepali machine translations (basis for Google Translator for Indian Languages) 

• Received Data Champion Leadership Award in Artificial Intelligence 2023 from Indian Express 

• Recognized by NASSCOM among top 8% IT Product Architects of India in 2013. Experience of delivering very complex technical architectures for large Organizations 

• University Gold Medalist and Topper in Computer Science from AUS, Tier 1 Central Govt University.

• M.Tech. Data Science and Engineering, BITS Pilani (Received University Highest Marks in NLP and Machine Leaning & CGPA 8.2)
• Integrated M.S. in Computer Science (5 Years Integrated), AUS (University Gold Medalist and Topper, CGPA 8, AUS Central University).
[5 Years Integrated M.S. is equivalent to B. Tech + M. Tech]
• Executive MBA-IIM Calcutta Grade-Excellent. EPBM’22