Avi Chawla

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India5 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Co-founder of a data science initiative.
  • Published state-of-the-art research in NLP.
  • Led impactful AI projects at Mastercard.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Science and AI professional with a focus on Fintech and Natural Language Processing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data ScienceMachine LearningStatisticsNatural Language ProcessingDeep Learning

Other Skills

Android DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence (AI)BashCC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)GNU OctaveHTML5JavaLarge Language Models (LLM)MySQLNeural NetworksNumPyPygame

Experience

Daily dose of data science

2 roles

Co-Founder

Promoted

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Author and Founder

Oct 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Aiport

Co-editor-in-chief

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Remote

  • AIport is a blog that aims to showcase what's going on in AI and ML not only in the US and Europe, but also in places like India, Brazil, China, South Korea, South Africa, and more!

Towards data science

Data Science Writer

May 2022Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

Mastercard

2 roles

Data Scientist II

Feb 2022Jun 2022 · 4 mos

AI Engineer

Aug 2020Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Worked on a Merchant Aggregation problem where the task is to aggregate the merchants in the merchant database of Mastercard that belong to the same brand using AI. I was responsible for the expansion of proposed strategies on the entire Merchant data across the globe.
  • In addition to Merchant Aggregation, also conducted a study to determine the impact of COVID-19 on economic relocation across the United States. The project was in close collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
  • Before that, I worked on a Named Entity Recognition (NER) task and achieved a state-of-the-art on two prominent NER datasets. The findings were published in the form of two separate conference papers.

Indian institute of technology (banaras hindu university), varanasi

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2020May 2020 · 4 mos · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Teaching Assistant for Artificial Intelligence course offered to sophomores of IIT (BHU) Varanasi during the session 2019-20.

University of hamburg

Summer Research Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Hamburg Area, Germany

  • Worked on the transition from Static Word Embeddings to Contextualized Word Embeddings(CWEs) and analyzed the mapping of words to vector spaces of CWE models. Designed and Implemented a nearest neighbour based classification approach on CWEs for Word Sense Disambiguation that achieved state-of-the-art on two WSD datasets

Talentica software

Data Science Intern

Dec 2018Dec 2018 · 0 mo · Pune Area, India

  • The internship project entailed the task of Concept extraction from legal document text and relationship identification between extracted concepts using the predefined Ontology.

Iiit hyderabad

Summer Research Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • The internship project involved the exploration of NLP techniques to Question Answering and perform a comparative study on prominent neural QA systems.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi

Bachelor of Technology — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2016Jan 2020

University of Maryland

Master's degree — Computer Science

Aug 2022Aug 2022

Blue Bells Model School

High School — Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

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