Ashish Patel

Sr. Data Scientist & Author

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ML Research Lab (Medium Blog)
IBM Certified Quantum ML Engineer
Rank#3 Kaggle Kernel Master
Book: Hands-on Time Series Analytics with Python

SUMMARY
Data scientist and researcher with 7 + years of experience and Total 10+ years of experience in
wide functions including Predictive modelling, Data Pre-processing, Feature engineering,
Machine learning and Deep learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Audio
Processing, Satellite image Processing, Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine learning,
MLops.
EDUCATION

Gujarat Technological University Ahmedabad, Gujarat

M.E (Computer Engineering) 2013-2015
Hemchandracharya University Mehsana, Gujarat
B.E (Information Technology) 2007-2011
EXPERIENCE
Cygnet Infotech Pvt. Ltd Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Sr. Data Scientist & AI Consultant 2020(Apr)-Current
• Interact with customers, develop use-cases on ML/AI, and use the same in solution
integration on existing business.
• Selecting features, building, and optimizing classifiers using machine learning and Deep
learning techniques.
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods and handling large-scale data using ETL:
processing tools such as Pyspark and Data Bricks.
• Extending company's data with third party sources of information when needed.
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building
analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a transparent manner
• Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
• Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis.
• Work as the lead data strategist, identifying and integrating new datasets that can be
leveraged through our product capabilities and work closely with the engineering team to
strategize and execute the development of data products.
• Collaborate with product design and engineering to develop an understanding of needs
and Quality.
• Analyze data for trends and patterns and Interpret data with a clear objective in mind.
• Provide deep learning and machine learning-based solutions to Solve various Real-world
problems.
Projects: Recommendation System, Chatbot Architecture Designing, Image Classification based project, Computer
Vision based Projects, Audio Deep learning based projects etc.

Prompt Softech Pvt Ltd (Amul Affiliated Company) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Sr. Data Scientist 2019(Sep)-2020(Feb)

• Research and devise innovative statistical models for data analysis.

• Work as the lead data strategist, identifying and integrating new datasets that can be
leveraged through our product capabilities and work closely with the engineering team to
strategize and execute the development of data products.
• Collaborate with product design and engineering to develop an understanding of needs
and Quality.
• Formulating, suggesting, and managing data-driven projects which are geared at furthering
the business's interests.
• Analyse data for trends and patterns and Interpret data with a clear objective in mind.
• Cross-validating models to ensure their generalizability.
• Keep current with technical and industry developments in dairy sector.
• Execute analytical experiments methodically to help solve various problems and make a
true impact across dairy domains industries.
• Monitoring the performance of Junior Data Scientists and providing them with practical
guidance, as needed.
• Selecting and Employing advance deep learning and machine-learning based solutions to
Solve varies Real world problem.

Projects: Milk Adulteration, Calf Behaviour Analysis, Calf health prediction, Animal Lameness detection etc.

Softweb Solutions (Avnet Company Fortune 500) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Data Scientist 2018(Jan)-2019(Sep)

• Hands-on experience in selecting features, building, and optimizing classifiers using

machine-learning techniques.
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building
analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner.
• Creating anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance.
• Having strong knowledge in Statistics, Feature Engineering, Model Selection, Model
• Evaluation, and Feature Scaling to build accurate machine learning.
• Experience in tuning and optimize ML/DL model for performance improvement.
• Hands on experience working with live projects on different machine learning
techniques.
• Having strong problem-solving capabilities.
• Working with most demand industrial technology Framework like pandas, NumPy,
matplotlib, nltk(NLP), keras(Deep Learning, tensor flow scikit learn(Machine learning),
opencv etc.
Projects: Image Classifications, Facial Expression Recognitions, Recommendation system, Predictive Modelling,
Regression Analysis

Solaris Publication Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Jr. Data Scientist 2017(Jan)-2018(Jan)

• Requirement gathering from the Business Team.

• Increased training data using the Image augmentation technique.
• Used Transfer learning concept to achieve reasonable accuracy.
• Implemented Deep learning image classification model.
• Validated Model on thousands of images.

Projects: Image Classification, Seasonality Trends Analysis, Recommendation System

Silver oak College of Engineering and Technology Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Researcher and Assistant Professor 2015(Dec)-2016(Dec)

• Teaching a student Academic Syllabus with practical labs.

• Guide students on their master thesis on Data Mining and Deep learning.
• Initiated to work with Student on the new research project with new technology.
• Guide a student to their Academic project.
L.D College of Engineering Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Lecturer 2015(May)- 2015(Dec)
Mantrasoft India Ahmedabad, Gujarat
PHP developer 2011(Aug)- 2013(Aug)
TECHNICAL SKILLS

✓ Programming Languages: Python, R

✓ Databases: PostgreSQL, Redshift, MongoDB
✓ Big Data Frameworks: Hadoop streaming, DataBricks, Kafka
✓ Libraries: pandas, NumPy, sklearn, scipy, keras, nltk, spacy, matplotlib, pyserial,
tensorflow, pytorch, pyspark
✓ Machine Learning: Regression, Random forest, boosted decision trees, naive Bayes,
SVM, k- means clustering, SVD/PCA, Anomaly Detection, Deep Learning algorithms,
Time Series Analysis, Sequence to Sequence learning, Meta learning
✓ Deep learning: NN, RNN, LSTM, GRU, CNN, Transfer Learning, Optimization of
Algorithm, Regularization, Hyperparameter Tuning, Batch Normalization
o Object Detection Algorithm : YOLOv5, SSD, RetinaNet, R-CNN, Faster R-
CNN, Efficient Det
o Semantic Segmenation Algorithms : Unet, FCN, SegNet, DeepLab, DeepLabv3
Unet++
o Generative Adversial Networks : GAN, Style GAN, DC GAN, SRGAN,
ESRGAN
o Instance Segmentation : Mask R-CNN, CenterMask
 o Vision Transformer, Autoencoder, Capsule Net, RBF, Deep Belief Network,
Variance Auto Encoder, Wavelet CNN etc.
✓ Natural Language Processing: Encoder Decoder Model (BERT, ALBERT etc.), NER,
Language Modelling etc.
o Frameworks: NLTK, Spacy, Gensim, Transformers, torchtext etc.
✓ Statistics: Descriptive Statistics, Inference Statistics, Bayesian Inference
✓ Deployment Tools: Docker, Kubeflow, MLops, MLflow, Tensorflow-Serving, ZenML,
Kedro
✓ Cloud Knowledge : Azure Machine learning Services, Aws Cloud Sage Maker Services.

ACHIEVEMENT

• Technical Book Reviewer with Manning Publication, Packt Publication, Apress

Publications.
• Achieved Star Club Member of Github contains more than 7k star.
• Certified Quantum Computing Practitioner from Qubit by Qubit(Thecodeschool) MIT
and Oxford University join Program.
• IBM Certified Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine learning Practitioner.
• Published more than 20+ Research papers with Publications such as IEEE, Springer etc.
• Book Author of Hands-on Time Series Analytics with Python - Book
• Coursera Certified Specialization in TensorFlow in Practice, Deep learning AI, Advance
Data Science with IBM
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashishpatel2604/
• Three-time potential Kernel Winner on World best data science platform
Kaggle(Google Data Science Platform)

PERSONAL
Citizenship: Indian
Natural Languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati
Interests: traveling, photography, distance running, choir, fantasy baseball

ASHISH PATEL
SR. DATA SCIENTIST