Ankur Narang

Ankur Narang is currently the VP of AI and Data Technologies at Hike. Ankur has previously held positions as the Senior Vice President of Technology and Decision Sciences at Yatra Online Pvt Ltd, the Chief Technology Officer at Sagacito Technologies, and the Associate Vice President of Data Science and Chief Data Scientist at Mobileum. Narang began their career as a Senior Research Scientist and Manager of High Performance Analytics at IBM Research in 2007.

Narang has extensive experience in leading AI technology and product innovations, with a focus on full stack end to end design and development on Cloud over terabytes of transactional and clickstream data. Ankur has experience working with various programming languages including Java, Javascript, and Python, as well as databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Solr. In their previous positions, Narang has worked on projects in areas such as dynamic discounting optimization, inventory recommendation, auto bidding for online marketing, virtual assistant and augmented reality using NLP/DL/RL, auto content generation, web personalization, and contextual recommendation.

Ankur Narang has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, an MS in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Ankur also attended Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Delhi and DPS RK Puram / BVB.

Some of their coworkers include Vibhor Sharma - Director of Talent Acquisition, Gautam Vohra - General Counsel, and Lee Keshav - Head of Product Design & Research. Ankur Narang reports to Kavin Bharti Mittal, Founder & CEO.