Syed Mohammad Ali

Syed Mohammad Ali

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Senior Data Scientist @ Microsoft
Senior Data Scientist @ Microsoft

I build production machine learning and AI systems that operate at the scale of Azure — forecasting demand, guiding multi‑billion‑dollar capacity decisions, and bringing generative AI into how a global cloud business plans and operates.

As a Senior Data & Applied Scientist at Microsoft's Capacity Planning (MCP) Centre of Excellence, I own forecasting and analytical systems that anticipate cloud demand, optimize resource allocation, and reduce operational risk across Azure. My work spans the full stack of applied ML — machine learning, deep learning, statistical modeling, and large‑scale data analysis — shipped as production systems, not prototypes.

Most recently, I've been architecting LLM‑powered agents and retrieval‑grounded systems that turn complex business data into executive‑ready insight — cutting time‑to‑decision from hours to seconds. While capacity forecasting is my current focus, I work across the breadth of machine learning and generative AI, and I'm equally at home framing an ambiguous problem, designing the model, and deploying it.

Beyond my core role, I'm committed to growing the next generation of data talent — I mentor aspiring data scientists, teach at leading ed‑tech platforms, contribute to academic curricula and research, and deliver keynotes and workshops on real‑world AI, cloud, and analytics.

I thrive at the intersection of engineering, business, and research — using data to solve hard problems, drive strategic decisions, and create meaningful impact.

Hindi, English
Mumbai (+05:30)
Joined October 2020
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SOCIAL PRESENCE
GitHub
riskyLoans
The project aims to identify the risky bank loans using C5.0 decision trees
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medicalSubjectExperts
A novel solution for finding relevant biomedical expert from India (having high impact publications) for a specific topic query by mining MEDLINE/Pubmed database
Python
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EMPLOYMENTS
Senior Data Scientist
Microsoft
2024-12-01-Present
As a Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft's Cloud Capacity Planning (CCP), Centre of Excellence (COE), I enable the infrastructure und...
As a Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft's Cloud Capacity Planning (CCP), Centre of Excellence (COE), I enable the infrastructure underlying the explosive growth in the Azure Cloud business.
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Machine Learning
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Machine Learning
Data Science
NLP
Deep Learning
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Data and Applied Scientist - 2
Microsoft
2022-08-01-2024-11-01
Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft’s Cloud Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP), Centre of Excellence (COE). This organizati...
Data and Applied Scientist at Microsoft’s Cloud Capacity, Supply Chain & Provisioning (CSCP), Centre of Excellence (COE). This organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying the explosive growth in the Azure Cloud business.
Python
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Machine Learning
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Machine Learning
NLP
Deep Learning
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Research Analyst - II
Amazon
2019-10-01-2022-07-01
• Performs root cause analysis by understanding the data need, get data / pull the data, and analyze it to form the hypothesis and valida...
• Performs root cause analysis by understanding the data need, get data / pull the data, and analyze it to form the hypothesis and validate it using data. • Find the scalable solution for the business problem by executing pilots and building Machine/Deep Learning models. • Scoping, driving, and delivering complex projects across multiple teams.
Python
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
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Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Data Science
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PROJECTS
Movie Recommendation System
2017
Developed a movie recommendation system that used tag genome and content-based filtering to give personalized recommendations. Techniques...
Developed a movie recommendation system that used tag genome and content-based filtering to give personalized recommendations. Techniques like Principal Component Analysis and Pearson correlation were used to reduce the dimension of data, vector space model was used to find similar movies, and finally contented based filtering was used to select top N recommendations.
Python
Machine Learning
Data Science
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Python
Machine Learning
Data Science
Recommendation System
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Search Engine for Identifying Medical Subject Experts
2017
Built a search engine for identifying medical subject experts, this search engine was built using page rank, tf-idf and Z-score for findi...
Built a search engine for identifying medical subject experts, this search engine was built using page rank, tf-idf and Z-score for finding the relevant biomedical expert from India (having high impact publications) for a specific topic query by mining MEDLINE/Pubmed database.
Python
Machine Learning
Data Science
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Python
Machine Learning
Data Science
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