Abhishek Kumar is the Director of Data Science at Publicis Sapient. Abhishek is an experienced data science professional and technical team lead specializing in building and managing data products from conceptualization to deployment phase and interested in solving challenging machine learning problems. Previously, he worked in the R&D center. for the largest power-generation company in India on various machine learning projects involving predictive modeling, forecasting, optimization, and anomaly detection and led the center’s data science team in the development and deployment of data science-related projects in several thermal and solar power plant sites. Abhishek is a technical writer and blogger as well as a Pluralsight author and has created several data science courses. He is also a regular speaker at various national and international conferences and universities. Abhishek holds a master’s degree in information and data science from the University of California, Berkeley.