Snehal Lokesh

Snehal Lokesh is a Machine Learning Engineer at Cigna Healthcare since June 2023, with previous experience as a Research Assistant at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where successful machine learning and deep learning models were developed under Professor Unnati Narang. Prior roles include Data Engineer at CVS Health, where integration for a Medicare rewards program was performed, and Data Scientist at Fractal, where a fraud detection framework utilizing Pyspark and Microsoft Azure was developed. Additional experience includes an Associate Consultant position at Fractal, focused on consumer shopping behavior modeling, and Software Engineer - Data Science at Softcell Technologies Global Pvt. Ltd., where convolutional neural networks were applied to KYC fraud detection. Snehal holds a Master’s degree in Information Management with a Data Science concentration from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University.