Sameeksha Khillan

AI Researcher

Washington, DC, United States10 yrs 5 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Developed innovative ML solutions for complex problems.
  • Led multiple successful AI projects with significant cost savings.
  • Expertise in Generative AI and NLP technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Scientist specializing in AI and Machine Learning across various industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData ScienceNatural Language Processing (nlp)Generative Ai

Other Skills

KubeflowDaskPython (Programming Language)Databricks ProductsAmazon Web Services (AWS)TensorFlowPredictive ModelingData AnalyticsDocker ProductsInformation RetrievalPyTorchImage ProcessingAWS LambdaComputer ScienceAmazon EC2

About

I am passionate about building innovative ML solutions for complex customer problems. I have a combined 9 years of experience in research and Industry and an academic background in Mathematics and Computer Science. I am experienced in GenAI, Statistical Analysis, Traditional ML, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision and MLOps. I also have hands-on expertise in fine-tuning, prompt engineering and RAG techniques for LLMs and Generative AI. I am very interested in AI security and safety and have recently worked on Agentic AI based workflows for LLM Sycophancy(check out my Github)

Experience

10 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Capital one

Principal Associate, Data Science

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · McLean, Virginia, United States · Hybrid

  • Consumer Credit Risk Management
  • I work on developing and optimizing huge Credit risk ML workflows on different platforms for Capital One customers and partnerships
  • My work involves a good mix of exploration and agile deliverables and directly impacts critical work streams like annual Federal regulatory stress-tests and other important credit-risk scenarios
  • My work is very collaborative in nature, requiring interfacing with several teams and stakeholders
KubeflowDaskPython (Programming Language)Databricks ProductsAmazon Web Services (AWS)Machine Learning+1

Intuit

3 roles

Senior Data Scientist

Jul 2022Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Document Understanding at Intuit AI
  • Engineered an OCR-free gen-AI recognition model saving millions in annual OCR costs, improving customer experience metrics by 42%
  • Experimented with Gemini as a Labeler with immense potential in cost and time savings
  • I led the end-to-end development of 11 NLP, Vision and multimodal models in production. Experienced in collaborating with product and data teams
  • I have 3 patents in ML from my time at Intuit AI
TensorFlowPredictive ModelingData AnalyticsDocker ProductsInformation RetrievalPyTorch+17

Data Scientist

Apr 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • I work to develop end-to-end production-ready ML models for Intuit customers. My work includes multi-modal features to build text and vision based models. As a Data Scientist, I focus on solving the customer problem at hand in the simplest and most efficient way possible while making sure my solutions are explainable and reproducible. I like to be current in my knowledge of AI, NLP and Vision related research as well as contribute to the Data Science community in any way possible.
TensorFlowPredictive ModelingData AnalyticsPyTorchImage ProcessingAWS Lambda+15

Data Science Intern

Jun 2019Sep 2019 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Converting cashflow forecasting to a regression problem and bench marking regression models against classical forecasting techniques.
  • Developing novel deep learning techniques for improving time series forecasting for Cashflow Data
  • Extending the application of Deep Kernel Learning to Cashflow forecasting problems
Predictive ModelingData AnalyticsPyTorchAmazon S3Data EngineeringTime Series Analysis+7

University of california, san diego - jacobs school of engineering

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Diego

  • Artificial Intelligence- Probabilistic Reason and Learning ( Fall 2019)
  • Cryptography (Winter 2019)
  • Differential Equations (Winter 2019)
  • Random Walk Algorithms (Spring 2019)
  • Algorithm Design and Analysis (Fall 2018)
Computer SciencePattern Recognition

Finmechanics

Associate

Jul 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

  • Consulted two major banking and non-banking clients throughout my tenure with a focus on Fixed Income and Money Markets. My role involved consulting and software development for the central Web Application with Extensive Back-end development in Java along with some Front-end development in JavaScript.
Back-End Web DevelopmentReasoning Skills

Indian institute of technology, delhi

2 roles

Research Student

Jun 2016Jun 2017 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

  • Used Stanford NLP’s GloVe trained word vectors to normalize Twitter data using mediaWiki dumps data in Python
  • Trained a transformation matrix on word vectors of common words in the two corpus using gradient descent to verify the hypothesis that usage differences for words in these two corpus could be captured as a linear transformation
Data AnalyticsInformation RetrievalStatistical Modeling

Teaching Assistant

Jun 2015May 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Financial Mathematics, Algorithms, Statistics, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

University of california, los angeles

Research Intern

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Mitigating errors and reducing costs of human annotated training data for Google Web Page classifiers using Statistical Inference, Machine Learning and Parallel Processing. Project sponsored and mentored by Google Los Angeles
  • Optimal single/multiple rater assignments for rating a set of web-pages training data based on a target Budget
  • Synthetic data simulation for ground truth rater assignments and evaluation using Random Forest and SVM classifiers

Aiesec in malaysia

Volunteer

Dec 2015Jan 2016 · 1 mo · Malaysia

  • Global Community Development Program
  • Designed a Server-Client Android Application for an Old age Home 'Noble Care' at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Product aimed at language-less urgent notification system to the care staff to serve residents better

American express

Summer Intern

May 2015Jul 2015 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Data Analytics and Automation - Built an automated data enrichment system for credit-card merchant database using Visual Basic for Applications and Google and Bing APIs.

Education

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2018Present

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Integrated Master's — Mathematics and Computing

Jan 2012Jan 2017

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Integrated M.Tech — Mathematics and Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master of Technology - MTech — Mathematics and Computer Science

Jun 2012May 2017

UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Sep 2018Mar 2020

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