Aamer Charania
Head of Applied Machine Learning at Best Buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning | Enriching lives through technology!
Creative leader with consistent success driving vision, strategy and development of AI and machine learning solutions in diverse industry domains including Financial Services, Healthcare, Technology, Telecom, and Airlines. Passion for delivering technical solutions that generate the most business value. Leads cross-functionally, effectively bridging the gap between technology and business, while stimulating collaboration and creativity. Builds and empowers high performance teams, attracting and developing top talent. Awarded over ten patents. Research and graduate education at MIT. 

Core competencies: 
Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Data Science | Big Data | Cloud | Software Engineering | Technology Strategy | Cross-Functional Leadership | Organizational Development | Innovation | Research | Emotional Intelligence
Best Buy
https://www.linkedin.com/company/best-buy
Head of Applied Machine Learning
Being the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer, addressing key human needs across variety of areas including entertainment, productivity, communications, security, nutrition and healthcare, Best Buy has some of the most exciting AI and ML products and use cases to build upon – truly enriching the lives of our customers whether they meet us online, visit us in person, or invite us into their homes! 

Join us if you love envisioning and developing cutting edge AI products!
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Dallas AI
https://www.linkedin.com/company/dallas-ai
Founder
Launched nonprofit forum to promote learning and networking among AI professionals. With a strong community of over 3,700 members, Dallas AI is the largest independent AI meetup group in North Texas. Our diverse community includes senior corporate leaders to fresh graduates and professionals in between, all sharing a common trait - passion for AI! 
Interested? Join us at: http://www.dallas-ai.org/
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
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SMU Big Data Advisory
https://www.linkedin.com/company/smu-big-data-advisory
Board Member
Serving as think tank discussing industry challenges and opportunities related to AI and Machine Learning
Dallas, TX
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Capital One
https://www.linkedin.com/company/capital-one
Director, Machine Learning
Regional head of Capital One Center for Machine Learning, leading vision, strategy and development of AI solutions for enterprise platforms and signature consumer products. Heading development of enterprise services in Deep Learning, Graph, Time Series Forecasting and Explainable AI, implemented as containerized microservices over cloud. 
Delivered data science solutions powering two of Capital One’s signature consumer products - Auto Navigator and Auto Refi, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques including computer vision, reinforcement learning and natural language processing.
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
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Humana
https://www.linkedin.com/company/humana
Director, Big Data & Machine Learning
Led design and development of state of the art big data and machine learning platform, empowering enterprise customer analytics, marketing and operations, and creating over $50M in value.  Managed implementation and growth of enterprise Data Lake with wide variety of structured and unstructured data sources, including healthcare records, financial transactions, claims, demographics, call center notes, web activity, sales, and purchasing trends. Implemented neural networks based predictive models, forecasting mail order pharmacy prospects, with 40% improvement in accuracy compared to traditional methods in place.
Irving, TX
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Verizon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/verizon
Distinguished MTS  (Technical Manager)
Led analytics and software engineering teams for video streaming products, including those for Redbox Instant by Verizon, a joint venture launched by Verizon and Redbox to compete with Netflix. Drove technology strategy for the joint venture CTO. Spearheaded design and development of big data platform to collect, process and analyze data from various sources, including multiple consumer devices (mobile phones, PCs, tablets, set-top boxes & smart TVs), enterprise billing and ordering systems, web servers, and third-party data providers.
Irving, TX
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Verizon
https://www.linkedin.com/company/verizon
Software Engineer (SE), Senior SE & Senior MTS (Principal)
Managed solution architecture and implementation of various analytics and data engineering solutions including product recommendation engines, enterprise data lakes, data visualization, distributed computing, and statistical modeling.  Researched cloud providers including AWS and Azure
Irving, TX
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mit
Research Assistant
Studied and implemented core fundamentals behind machine learning and data processing frameworks with focus on travel industry use cases. Developed software to evaluate various analytical algorithms for dynamic pricing. Reprogrammed a pricing simulation engine, achieving over 200% improvement in processing times.
Cambridge, MA
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Engineering
Master of Science (MS)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/school/mit/
Focus on Information Technology & Airline Applications
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Computer Science
Master of Science (MS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/
Focus on Data Analytics & Machine Learning
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Finance & Information Technology
MBA
Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
https://www.linkedin.com/school/southern-methodist-university---cox-school-of-business/
Focus on Finance & Technology Strategy
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Systems and methods for enhancing real-time image recognition
United States
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Systems and methods for updating image recognition models
United States
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Systems and methods for quality assurance of image recognition model
United States
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Big Data Parser
United States
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Efficient Bandwidth Utilization
United States
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Revenue Management for Dynamic Bundling
United States
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Dynamic Quota-Based Entertainment Manager
United States
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Content recommendation using subsequence profiling
United States
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System for Advertisement Revenue Management
United States
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Advance Notice of Television Advertisements
United States
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Channel Navigation
United States
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Dynamic Pricing for Pay-Per-View Events
United States
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System for Revenue Management using Location Based Services
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mit
President - MIT Club of Dallas & Fort Worth
Led the local alumni club for the 1000+ MIT alumni in North Texas region. Envisioned and launched a new professional development series.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.linkedin.com/company/mit
Alumni Advisor
Advising MIT alumni on career development and learning, especially in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science domains.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Educational Counselor
Local MIT representative, interviewing applicants and helping recruit the best and the brightest.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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VP Communications - MIT Club of Dallas & Fort Worth
Managed website, event related commutations and newsletters for the
1000+ MIT alumni in North Texas region. Launched a new improved website for the local MIT community.
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AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS)
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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aws.amazon.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Sequence Models
NUZM4A39VRQW
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Coursera
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Convolutional Neural Networks
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Coursera
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Structuring Machine Learning Projects
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Coursera
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization
WB7V9XF5VTBX
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Coursera
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
T2SWHBX8AHXX
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Coursera
Machine Learning
Stanford University via Coursera
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Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop (CCDH)
100-008-410
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Cloudera
Sun Certified Architect for Java
Sun Microsystems
Sun Certified Programmer for Java (SCJP)
Sun Microsystems
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AWS Certified Machine Learning – Specialty
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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        Aamer has the perfect combination of soft skills and technical skills. Aamer is exceptional in engaging other teams and building interest, but is still able to push back when necessary. He has the same balanced approach when working in our own team as well. 11/10 Stephane Bratu
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        During his time at MIT, Amer has shown consistent efforts to deliver excellent work in a very challenging environment.
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MIT innovation
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Ismaili Professionals Network (IPN)
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IoT/Wearables/Medical Devices for Telemedicine/Telehealth/Digital Health
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Mobile TV
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Software Architects and Enterprise Architects Group
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Cloud Computing
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Blue: The DallasBlue Business Network (25,000+ members)
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The Enterprise Architecture Network
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VERIZON CONNECTIONS
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CIO Community, North America
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Hadoop Users
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Data Science Central
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