Shashank Pathak

AI Researcher

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada6 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • PhD student focused on Machine Learning applications.
  • 2+ years of backend software engineering experience.
  • Research in NLP and Computer Vision.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning researcher with backend development expertise in Healthcare and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningComputer VisionBackend Development

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBootstrapCC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)CeleryData StructuresDeep LearningDjangoFlaskFrontend web developmentGolangHTMLHTML5

About

I am a PhD student in the department of Computing Science at University of Alberta. Highly interested in problems involving applications of Machine Learning, specifically in the domain of computer vision, LLMs and bioinformatics. I have 2+ years of experience working as a software engineer in the backend domain. In case you are hiring for ML research (internship), I would like to connect and know more.

Experience

Synapsis medical technologies inc.

Research Collaborator

May 2024Oct 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Associated with Mitacs Accelerate Fellowship.
Computer VisionNatural Language Processing (NLP)Language ModelingDeep LearningMachine Learning

Alberta machine intelligence institute (amii)

Technical Advisement - PV

Jul 2023Sep 2023 · 2 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · Remote

  • Worked on document classification through NLP based deep learning models used for downstream tasks like NER, to capture complex entities in the land and well documents.

University of alberta

2 roles

Graduate Research Fellow

May 2023Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Worked on mRNA vaccine design using Language Models

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • Teaching Assistant for Intro to Digital Image Processing (CMPUT-206) for Winter 2023.
  • Teaching Assistant for Visual Recognition (CMPUT-328) for Fall 2024.
  • Teaching Assistant for Algorithms-1(CMPUT-204) for Winter-2023, Fall-2023, Winter-2024, Fall 2025.
  • Teaching Assistant for Algorithms-2(CMPUT-304) for Fall 2022.

Nference

Software Engineer - ML

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked on several backend applications like Test Framework, FAERS and Triangulation.
  • Worked on Random Forest Model for ESOCAP.
  • Tools and Technologies Used: Python, Jupyter, Flask, Redis, Golang, MongoDB.
PythonJupyterFlaskRedisGolangMongoDB+1

Unacademy

Educator

Sep 2021Feb 2022 · 5 mos · Remote

  • Interview Preparation and Live Problem Solving

Clear

Software Engineer

Dec 2020Sep 2021 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked as a Backend Developer in the Marketing Tech and Market Place Team.
  • 1.) Worked on Glossary (Fintech Dictionary of ClearTax(cleartax.in/g/terms)) on feature updates in phase- II. It lead to 43% traffic growth.
  • 2.) Built the BLACK SMS service, to send desktop user the google play link of the black app.
  • 3.) Built the service for routing and deploying the webpages made in Webflow to the cleartax.in domain.It helped front end people to quickly deploy a webpage made in Webflow.
  • 4.) Worked on paytm sso integration API.
  • 5.) Worked on the dockerization of lead services application, which is cleartax one of the most cutomer centeric application. The application was dockerized and served on Kubernetes. Deployment was automated through jenkins jobs.
  • 6.) Also worked on few CRUD APIS for creating and updating Service Providers and Ops user Database.

Geeksforgeeks

Mentor

Oct 2020Nov 2020 · 1 mo

  • Worked in the founder's team on Data Structures and Algorithms courses and courses on competitive programming

Red hat

R&D Software Engineer Intern

Apr 2020Oct 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Worked in the Middleware R&D team on Kogito.
  • Wrote Jenkins scripts for Kogito images release pipeline.
  • Also worked on new bundle format POC and operators of openshift

Attentive ai

Research Development Software Developer Intern

Jan 2020Feb 2020 · 1 mo · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Built end to end web backend tool.
  • RestAPIs and celery was used.
  • It helps calculate the NDWI(Water Index) ,NDVI(Vegitation Index) and cloud cover in a region given it's co-oridnate point
  • The ML model was trained on sentinal-2 imageries taken by sentinel-2 satellite of European Space Agency

Mitacs

Mitacs Globalink Research Intern

May 2019Aug 2019 · 3 mos

  • Query Based text summarization using Reinforcement Learning for summarization alignment as an reward. LSTM based model was used for text generation and ROUGE score was used as an evaluation metric.

Indian institute of technology, indore

2 roles

Visiting Research scholar

May 2018Jul 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Worked on Genetic Algorithms/Evolution Algorithm to further optimize cluster formation as an Optimum Path Forest Problem.

Summer Research Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos

  • Project Title: Automatic Fire Detection In IOT environment using Machine Learning Techniques.
  • 1.) Devised Mathematical Techniques to eradicate cluster overlapping.
  • 2.) Optimized clustering algorithm using it as Optimum Path Forest Problem with variation in KNN and K-means clustering algorithm.Used weighted undirected graph with taking each node contours as their influence area.

Education

University of Alberta

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Computing Science

Sep 2024Present

University of Alberta

Masters Thesis — Computing Science

Jan 2022Jan 2024

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar

Bachelor of Technology

Jan 2016Jan 2020

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