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Uzair Ahmad

Uzair Ahmad

Data Scientist · AI/ML Engineer
About

Data Scientist with 4+ years of experience building production ML and LLM-driven solutions across healthcare, pharma, and e-commerce. Specialized in forecasting, causal inference, and delivering measurable business impact from data products.

Experience

Data Scientist

Pfizer
Oct 2023 – Present
  • Led development of an LLM-powered forecasting and decision-support system, including an agent-based marketing pilot.
  • Developed ML-driven HCP targeting models and Tableau dashboards, increasing marketing conversion by 15%.
  • Designed and productionized sales forecasting pipelines in Dataiku, supporting strategic sizing decisions.
  • Optimized marketing channel budgets using marketing mix models (Kedro, PySpark) to maximize ROI.

AI & Automation Consultant

UzairAhmad.ca
Feb 2025 – Present
  • Independent consulting practice focused on LLM-powered automation and agentic workflow design for startups.
  • Advised SynqAI on Voice AI workflow architecture — designed and streamlined end-to-end production pipelines.

Data Scientist

Elna Médical
Apr 2022 – Oct 2023
  • Developed statistical models to predict patient no-shows, increasing estimated appointment bookings by 4–6%.
  • Optimized private clinic pricing through sensitivity analysis & patient simulation to add est. revenue of $130,000/year.
  • Built KPI dashboards from EHR data (Operational, Marketing, Business Development) using Power BI and SQL Server.
  • Deployed LLM-based NLP pipelines for medical entity extraction and clinical summarization to support physicians.

Researcher

Intelligems
Nov 2021 – Aug 2022
  • Led causal analysis and A/B testing across multiple Shopify e-commerce stores to optimize pricing, improving lift, conversion, and profit across customer segments.

Data Architect

Scotiabank
Oct 2021 – Apr 2022
  • Migrated workflows with multiple dependencies (C++, VBA, SSIS) to Azure Cloud pipeline.
  • Automated ICAAP capital assessment processes, reducing manual oversight and operational risk.

Junior Data Scientist

Afiniti
Dec 2020 – Aug 2021
  • Drove ~$500K in average monthly revenue deploying ML-based agent–caller pairing models for T-Mobile and Caesars Entertainment.

Associate

Abletech Solutions FZCO
Jun 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Led a content-filtering (sentiment analysis) project using social media web scraping and custom NLP pipelines for Urdu text processing.
Education

Master of Management in Analytics

McGill University, Desautels
Aug 2021 – Aug 2022
  • $10,000 McGill Entrance Scholarship & Director's Award.
  • Research Assistant: pricing optimization for e-commerce Shopify stores.

B.Eng., Mechanical / Mechatronics Engineering

NUST
Nov 2017 – Jun 2019
Outside Work
Running & Hiking
Guitar & Songwriting