Writing

Bylines and articles

1. Sep 2026

   To scale AI agents, enterprises must strengthen governance

   Frontier Enterprise

   Argues that agents acting on their own need enforceable limits: policy-as-code, clear decision rights, and human oversight.

2. Sep 2025

   It's time for banks to cash in on generative AI

   Frontier Enterprise

   Banks in Asia Pacific must modernize legacy systems, close skills gaps, and put AI governance in place to get value from generative AI.

3. Oct 2019

   The tech revolution is here...

   LinkedIn

   Insurers across Asia are rebuilding systems, teams, and processes for analytics and AI, and reinsurers like Munich Re now help them do it.

4. Mar 2017

   A data scientist speaks: Business needs Watson Analytics

   IBM Business Analytics Blog

   Why self-service tools like Watson Analytics matter for putting analysis in the hands of business users, not only data scientists.

5. Jun 2015

   IT Operations Analytics

   insideBIGDATA

   A plain-language introduction to IT operations analytics, using a website outage to show how log data drives decisions.

Essays

1. Dec 2023

   Consuming Content from the Gen AI Firehose

   A curated list of people, videos, papers, blogs, and courses for keeping up with the flood of Gen AI developments.

   Also on LinkedIn

2. Apr 2020

   Is this the right time for innovation, digitalization, and AI?

   Why the COVID-19 pandemic is the time for organizations to double down on innovation, digitalization, and AI.

3. Feb 2020

   The Impact of Telematics Data and AI on Motor Insurance

   How telematics data and AI could move motor insurance from proxy rating factors to scoring how people actually drive. Co-authored with David R. Hardoon.

4. Aug 2019

   Excerpt from a recent talk

   An excerpt from my talk at the Regional CEO Summit organized by Munich RE in Sentosa, Singapore.

5. Aug 2019

   Some recent pictures from several talks

   Photos from several of my talks and workshops in 2018 and 2019.

6. Aug 2017

   Big Data Analytics in FinTech: My talk at SMU

   Listing for my MITB Analytics Seminar at SMU: Big Data Analytics in FinTech and InsurTech, industry trends and use cases.

7. Feb 2017

   Analytics Strategy: Consulting v/s Hub & Spoke v/s The Embedded Model

   How should organizations define an analytics strategy? Comparing the consulting, hub and spoke, and embedded models.

8. Feb 2017

   wate-R

   For all of us who have hit the proverbial "R" wall due to memory size limitations, H2O is a welcome relief.

9. Feb 2017

   Blast from the Past: Distributed Reinforcement Learning on Spark

   Video of our Spark Summit 2014 talk in San Francisco on distributed reinforcement learning, from my time as a Senior Data Scientist at Impetus.

10. Jan 2017

    "The Hammer and Nail" philosophy in Analytics

    In the world of data science and analytics these days, we are all faced with the key question of what technique or methodology solves which problem.

11. Jan 2017

    Much Ado about Some Things…

    A rant about the hype around big data, AI, and pay-to-speak conferences, and what serious data scientists can do about it.

12. Jan 2017

    How to Build, Coach, and Lead Successful Data Science Teams (Part-I)?

    Part I of a two-part series: the roles and personas you need to build a successful data science team from scratch.

13. Jan 2017

    How to Build, Coach, and Lead Successful Data Science Teams (Part-II)?

    This quick piece is about leading, motivating, and coaching data science teams.

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