Niraj Yagnik Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

• Inference, AI and Data Center Research
• Driving the company's expansion by building and leading a development team in Mumbai, India to oversee product development.

Greenwich, Connecticut, United States

Wearing a lot of hats - Data Science, AI, Finance, Software Dev, Analysis, Data Engineering, Database management

San Diego County, California, United States

• Helped secure grants and significant funding by leading the end-to-end development of machine learning techniques for stress detection using wearable sensor data in Python and SQL.
• Developing techniques to integrate Large Language Models to provide risk stratification.
• Oversaw the design and development of the company's data management system utilizing Google Cloud Platform.

La Jolla Shores, California, United States

• Engaged in Human-AI interaction, specializing in Explainable AI under the guidance of Dr. Kristen Vaccaro.
• Spearheading a project to optimize the assessment of Explainable AI systems on humans.
• Enhanced the qualitative evaluation of AI explainability by identifying six key challenges in human-centric testing through interviews with 25 pioneering researchers, targeting methodological improvements and building.
• Submitted to NeurIPS.

La Jolla Shores, California, United States

• Winter'24: 1. As a Teaching Assistant for a Graduate-level course on Advances in Language Models, my responsibilities included answering course-related questions, handling course logistics, creating and grading student.
• Fall'23: 1. Served as a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Julian McAuley in the Fall 2023 CSE 158 - Web Mining and Recommender Systems offering. Responsible for conducting Office Hours, grading assignments, and solving.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Orchestrated robust data migration pipelines and ETL processes using Azure Synapse Analytics for India’s largest private insurance company, catalyzing a 15% surge in retail sales by powering data-driven strategic.
• Directed a team of three in the strategic migration of numerous analytical dashboards from SAS BI to Azure, collaborating with end-users to achieve flawless migration accuracy and an 80% reduction in data processing.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Developed 30+ PowerBI dashboards for insurance data analysis with optimized SQL queries, enhancing management's decision-making and boosting productivity and revenue.
• Working in the Data Lake team as a Data Engineer to develop the architecture for Azure Modern Data Warehouse for the organization.

• Worked on an array of research projects on topics related to Multimodal Sentiment Analysis, Evolutionary Computation, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Deep Learning and Cyber Security.Projects I worked on:
• Impact of Cultural-Shift on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis.
• Optimizing Activity Recognition in VideoUsing Evolutionary Computation.
• IDS for Wireless Sensor Networks using Frequency Based K-Prototype Clustering and RFC.
• Privacy Preserving Data Mining on Sensitive Data.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Enhanced features for the Android Application that connects tourists with the required tour guide based on personal expectations.
• Designed and developed algorithms to connect the tourist with the respective tour guide in the most optimized manner based on user inputs.
• Designed and marketed an online course that aims at mentoring students into becoming top-notch tour guides.
• Developed modules for incorporating VR and AR to enhance the virtual tour experience for the users.

Navi Mumbai

• Designed an Ensemble Learning Technique under the Guidance of Dr. Shailesh Kumar called as Community Forest Algorithm in which logical communities of related features are constructed on the basis of mutual affinity of.
• Designed an efficient Resume Parser using text processing libraries in python and Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for text classification.
• Designed Learning Materials for Topics related to Data Science and Machine Learning for the new Recruits at Jio.
• Contributed to the Data Agnostic Model that automates Cleaning of the input dataset and outputs Visual Insights about it features.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Active MindsCourse Work: AI: Recommender Systems & Web Mining, Principles of Artificial Intelligence.

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer And Communication Engineering, 9.34/10

Activities and Societies: Pydata Manipal, ACM Student ChapterMinor Specialization in Big Data

Data Scientist Foundation Nanodegree