Shivang Agarwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India9 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 10 years of experience in quantitative research.
  • Expertise in machine learning and deep learning applications.
  • Proven track record in software development and system design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with strong software development skills in Fintech and Travel Tech.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningDeep LearningSoftware DevelopmentSystem Design

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Computer VisionData AnalysisData ScienceData StructuresLinuxObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)PythonStatisticsSystems Design

About

I have 10+ years of experience. Currently leading Systematic Equity Active (SEA) team at State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). I also have 4+ years of research level experience in Machine Learning and Deep Learning. I was enrolled in a PhD program but discontinued it because of COVID-19 impact. I have also worked in software development and as a consultant. Education: All India Rank 1583 in Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2010 2014, B.Tech. - Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee 2019 Masters - UNICAEN, France Languages: Python, C, C++, R, SQL, Bash Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras Tools: GIT, Mercurial, Slurm, MATLAB, MySQL, SQLite Operating System: Linux Certifications: Trading Strategies in Emerging Markets Specialization by Indian School of Business on Coursera. Data Science Specialization by Johns Hopkins University on Coursera Machine Learning by Stanford University on Coursera Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part 2 by Stanford University on Coursera

Experience

State street global advisors

3 roles

Assistant Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

Manager - Systematic Equity Active Team

Feb 2024Apr 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Senior Quantitative Researcher

Dec 2022Feb 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

Trainman

Machine Learning Engineer

Sep 2022Dec 2022 · 3 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Designed machine learning models to estimate the probability of train tickets getting confirmed.
  • The models reached a precision of 96% and a recall of 92%.
  • The non-confirmed tickets are guaranteed a flight ticket against a small premium. The models created an overall positive expected return for the company.
Machine LearningDeep LearningPythonData Science

Gamaa soft solutions

Software Development Consultant

Aug 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Accounting software
  • Designed the system to manage accounting and inventory for the small and medium scale businesses.
  • The product on-boarded 10 businesses having 750-1000 clients each.
  • Aptology
  • Designed the system to screen candidates for a role by evaluating the survey filled by them. It analyses their personality traits and finds the best fit.
  • It has been used for more than 100 job profiles and 10000 candidates.
Software DevelopmentSystem DesignData Analysis

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

2 roles

PHD Candidate

Sep 2019Jul 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Got admitted to the PhD program with the top research funding organization in France (CNRS) on a full scholarship.
  • Performed two years of studies before exiting the program due to COVID-19 impact.
  • The focus of my thesis was to develop dynamic networks where the number of layers / architecture in a deep learning network can vary dynamically according to the difficulty of the data (images and videos) to be processed.
  • Devised a gating mechanism that could select different parts of the convolutional neural network (CNN).
  • Experimented extensively and achieved a relative improvement of 4% on the classification task.
  • Achieved a relative improvement of 10%-12% on depth inference task from a single image.

Research Engineer

Aug 2017Aug 2019 · 2 yrs

  • State-of-the-Art-Report
  • Published a report to summarise around 500+ research papers for a variety of applications such as object classification, detection and improvising techniques such as self-supervised learning, online learning, etc.
  • The report has been cited 90+ times.
  • Original Research Work
  • Enhanced the existing state-of-the-art deep learning architecture on object detection to improve performance on datasets with fewer training data by 3% in absolute terms.
  • Came up with the idea, experimented a wide variety of configurations and wrote the resulting paper.
  • The paper was accepted in ICPR 2020.

Amadeus labs

Software Engineer

Jul 2014Jul 2016 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Addition of new features:
  • Built new back-end libraries in C, C++ for the rail product.
  • Added new features in the rail product - Add Complex Itineraries, Cancel Complex Itineraries, Cancel Per Pax, Open Ticket, Split Per Party, Seat And Berth Preferences, Immediate Distribution of Tickets, VAT Exclusion, Resend Tickets and New Supplements.
  • Addition of new client:
  • Part of the design team to add a new client for Rails product.
  • Added enhancements for method of deliveries, corporate codes, seat merchandising, fares, special supplements, cancellation policy and purchase conditions.
  • Later worked on adapting the APIs with the new client's infrastructure.
  • API migration:
  • Migrated Rails back-end for Shopping, Booking, Ticketing and After Sales to the new client's infrastructure.
  • Updated all the APIs as well as conducted black-box testing in all pre-production and production environments.

Education

Université de Caen Normandie

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD — Deep Learning for Computer Vision

Aug 2019Jul 2021

Université de Caen Normandie

Master's degree

Aug 2018Jul 2019

Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Electrical Engineering

Jul 2010Jun 2014

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