Dr Nishant Chandra is Hands on leader with 15 years of global experience in machine learning, product development, strategy, and R&D. He has books, patents and publications in predictive analytics, data and text mining, speech and natural language. He is Center head of science team at a fortune 30 company and managed large cross-geo teams. He is successful in startup and VC experience including raising $4 million dollars for Lessac Technologies. He has Internationally represented India in the world puzzle championship at Stamford (CT), USA. He is recognized as top 10 data scientist in India by analytics India magazine. He is recipient of  President’s award to team and senior leadership team (SLT) recognition at AIG. He is classified as an outstanding researcher by the department of homeland security, government of USA.

He has following patents in his credit namely; Computerized speech synthesizer for synthesizing speech from text. Methods employing phase state analysis for use in speech synthesis and recognition. System-effected methods for analyzing, predicting, and/or modifying acoustic units of human utterances for use in speech synthesis and recognition. Hybrid speech synthesizer, method and use. System-effected text annotation for expressive prosody in speech synthesis and recognition.