About Me

Hi folks, I am a Machine Learning Engineer by Profession and co-author of the book Sculpting Data for ML. I developed a passion for identifying and tackling novel and practical problems using Machine Learning during my research internships at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, which I further explored during my Master's in Computer Science from the University of California San Diego. I try to combine my past engineering experiences in designing large-scale systems, working at Amazon and Arcesium (a D.E. Shaw company), and research experiences in Applied Machine Learning to develop distributed Machine Learning relevance systems at Twitter. My explorations have led to several research publications in competitive ML conferences like RecSys, ACL, and WSDM (with 150+ citations). The ML community has also well received the datasets collected (also used in the book) as part of my research. Kaggle recently ranked me as one of the top 20 dataset contributors on the platform, and Deeplearning.ai's "Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow" course on Coursera used my Sarcasm Detection dataset for teaching purposes. These days, I'm actively working on promoting data centric view and approaches in AI, which is also one of the topics in our book Sculpting Data for ML. Follow DataForML handle on Twitter or LinkedIn to stay up-to-date. In my downtime, I enjoy watching sci-fi shows, working-out, video gaming, and spending time with my family. I presently live in the Bay Area.

Last updated: 10th Sep 2021

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