Nikhar Shah is a Principal Data Scientist and AI practitioner with 10+ years of experience building and deploying production-grade machine learning and generative AI systems in regulated industries. He has led enterprise AI initiatives at J.D. Power, LPL Financial, Mercedes-Benz Financial, and Nestlé — including a firewall-hosted LLM platform serving 18,000+ financial advisors and compliance-critical anomaly detection systems that reported directly to government regulators. Nikhar holds a Master's in Data Science from Harvard University and mentors AI/ML practitioners at MIT Professional Education. He focuses on making AI deployments trustworthy, secure, and measurably impactful in high-stakes environments.