Arvind Thinagarajan

The Gannett Greatest Awards honor the contributions of employees who drive North Star priorities and embody Gannett's values. Recognized as the runner-up from nearly 900 nominations for the "Excellence in Leadership Award" category.

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Excellence In Leadership Award: This individual leads by example. Their commitment to growth and development motivates their team and colleagues to achieve excellence by fostering open dialogue and actively encouraging opportunity for personal and… Show more

The Gannett Greatest Awards honor the contributions of employees who drive North Star priorities and embody Gannett's values. Recognized as the runner-up from nearly 900 nominations for the "Excellence in Leadership Award" category.

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Excellence In Leadership Award: This individual leads by example. Their commitment to growth and development motivates their team and colleagues to achieve excellence by fostering open dialogue and actively encouraging opportunity for personal and professional growth. This person epitomizes Gannett's culture of inclusion, which drives our North Star goals.
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Recognized as one of the Top 100 Influential AI & Analytics leaders in the United States for my accomplishments and commitment to the field of Data Science & Analytics.

Awarded for leading and converting a pilot project into a full-time engagement by delivering high quality analytics, nurturing and growing offshore team by more than 200% and building strong client relationships.

Awarded for developing a business screen for UHG that automated a purging process, reducing turnaround time from two days to under a minute. Facilitated annual cost savings of USD 24,878.

Awarded for tuning an automated print process that optimized the performance of a queue manager, reducing the number of service tickets by 200% per month, facilitating annual cost savings of approximately USD 60,000.

I was recognized with the 'Most Innovative Application of the Year' award for conceptualizing, designing, and productizing an NLP-based sentence prediction engine to advance the intelligence and user experience of texting on mobile phones. The prototype called 'T9++' predicted a user's input by combining the knowledge of their past behavior with semantic intelligence of the current conversation. This advancement improved the keystroke per character (KSPC) efficiency by over 150%, which was a… Show more

I was recognized with the 'Most Innovative Application of the Year' award for conceptualizing, designing, and productizing an NLP-based sentence prediction engine to advance the intelligence and user experience of texting on mobile phones. The prototype called 'T9++' predicted a user's input by combining the knowledge of their past behavior with semantic intelligence of the current conversation. This advancement improved the keystroke per character (KSPC) efficiency by over 150%, which was a game-changer for people who are physically disabled or differently-abled.

I had the honor of receiving this National Award from one of my all-time heroes, Sir Ratan Naval Tata, and it will always remain one of the highlights of my career. Show less