Nihad Khudiyev

Sheet-metal manufacturer (high-mix, low-volume). The ERP's fixed processing-time estimates were often far off, which made just-in-time production planning unreliable. • Cleaned and validated 5 years of ERP production records and identified what drives variability in processing times for manual bending and welding. • Engineered historical and human-machine-interaction features; built and tuned Random Forest and XGBoost models (Optuna, 5-fold cross-validation). • Cut estimation error by more than 40% versus

Designed and taught a self-developed Power BI course for adult learners, taking them from raw data to finished reports and dashboards.

Consumer-lending company in Baku. I handled the data for two departments, the Sales team and the Call Center. • Wrote SQL queries to extract, join, filter and aggregate loan and customer data from the company database for analyses and reports. • Segmented customers and profiled credit risk across consumer loan portfolios to identify high- and low-risk borrower groups, supporting lending and credit-limit decisions. • Built the Power BI and Excel dashboards and reports management used for performance trackin

QSS Analytics runs the Data Science Academy, a data-science bootcamp in Baku for career switchers and working professionals. • Reviewed and summarised student feedback from survey forms and conversations with learners (cohorts of 20–25), and reported findings and recommendations to course management. • Maintained the academy's Excel tables on enrolments, learners and courses and built the summaries used in management reporting. • Completed hands-on analytics projects in SQL, Power BI, Tableau and R on the

Joint programme with Maastricht University. Focus: statistical modelling, machine learning, forecasting, generative AI and applied data science with industry partners. Industry projects: • Hegge Toelevering: predicting processing times for manual bending and welding from 5 years of ERP data (see E

Some major courses: • Linear Algebra and Calculus • Probability theory and mathematical statistics • Business Economics • Financial and bank statistics • Statistics(specialty)