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Education
- Ph.D in Ranking using Language Models, Leibniz University Hannover, 2024 (expected)
- M.S. in Computer Science, Leibniz University Hannover, 2016
- B.S. in Information Technology, Vellore University, Vellore, India, 2007
Work experience
- 2024 - Present: Expert Machine Learning Engineer, MBition
- Developing strategies to accelerate LLM development
- Delivering AI solutions for diverse products and teams in the speech domain
- Led the development and release of three conversational AI products to end users
- 2019 - 2020: Data Scientist, FlixBus
- Duties includes:
- Lead demand forecasting team.
- Improved price prediction models to maximise revenue across FlixBus network.
- Implemented demand forecasting using time-series based models.
- Collaborated with revenue management and pricing teams to refine pricing strategies.
- Spearheaded efforts to reduce AWS costs (computational and storage) by 43\%.
- 2017 - 2019: Engineer, NEW WORK SE
- Duties included:
- Conceived and executed solutions that harness user interest extracted from text, integrating it with user behavior data to address diverse business challenges.
- Engineered a statistical model to enhance user insights leveraging location data.
- Conducted in-depth analysis of both live and historical data to extract actionable insights.
- Played a pivotal role in enhancing the team’s proficiency in data science and machine learning methodologies
- 2015 - 2016: Research Assistant, L3S Research Center
- Duties included:
- Worked on research problem on how to rank daily news given news collection(GDelt, STICS) and Wikipedia.
- Research problem: To find out why and how do event pages in Wikipedia lag or lead the news and emergence of entity pages in Wikipedia.
- Ranking news events according to Structural and Source based feature.
- Contributed in Publication of 3 full papers in top conferences(WSDM,Web-Sci)
- 2010 - 2013: Module Lead, Persistent Systems
- Duties included:
- Gathered requirements and defined new features for an online test platform.
- Designed a framework for automation testing.
- Assisted in automating the build, release, deployment, and testing processes.
- Took responsibility for bi-weekly testing and test release of the product.
- 2007 - 2010: Software Engineer, Electronics for Imaging, Infosys Systems
- Duties included:
- Contributed to the development of features for the Fiery JDF product suite, adhering to stringent quality control standards for defect management using C++.
- Served as the primary contact for Phase 2 Fiery JDF engine support.
Skills
- Python
- Pytorch
- Pytorch Lightning
- Transformers
- Weights and Biases
- Java
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