Sidhraj Solanki Last Updated on **th December ****

ac72j6@r.postjobfree.com 508-***-****

EDUCATION

UMASS BOSTON

MS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Dec 2018 Boston, MA

Cum. GPA: 3.78

M.L.S.U.

BSC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Rajasthan, India

LINKS

Github:// sidhraj

LinkedIn:// sidhraj

COURSEWORK

GRADUATE

Computer Vision

Artificial Intelligence

Object Oriented Programming

Data Backed Websites

Database Management

SKILLS

PROGRAMMING

Java • Python • R

• Shell • LATEX

• C • PHP • SQL

MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS:

XGBoost • KNN • Random Forest

• Image Processing • NLP • nltk

• Keras • Tensorflow • sklearn

FAMILIARWITH:

Java Servlet

OTHER SKILLS:

HTML • CSS • MS Excel • vim • JIRA

EXPERIENCE

Datycs Inc.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INTERN

June 2018 – Aug 2018 Boston, MA

• Web scraping using python libraries to extract data from web pages.

• Processing data files, extract information from pdf and other format files, and generate reports using python.

• Applied natural language processing systems like Apache cTAKES, MetaMap to get annotated semantic disorders from electronic health records.

• Created classification models using scikit-learn to identify performance of text extraction models.

• Evaluated performance of different machine learning models using python.

• Commit and push changes to bitbucket repository. Aptara Corp.

DATA TEAM

May 2013 – Jan 2017 Noida, India

• Worked on data cleaning and data pre-processing for Elsevier Customer Insights and Analytics Team.

• Identified target audience of clients by demographics, geographic, income, interests, and buying behavior using social media analysis.

• Advised and created social media strategies for clients to enhance their business.

INDUSTRY PROJECT

Topos Labs CHATBOT

September 2018 – December 2018 Boston, MA

• Created ontology based on the book ”Fellowship of The Ring”.

• Fed the whole book paragraph by paragraph to Edison(Cognitive Engine of Topos Labs).

• Created a knowledge base having popular questions and answers based on the same book.

• Created a chatbot using python Tkinter, giving option to users to query either knowledge base or Edison.

• Used python nltk to find nearest match for existing questions from the knowledge base.

• Wrote python script to generate elastic search queries from user questions and query Edison backend (Kibana) to return an appropriate response. ACADEMIC PROJECT

Precipitation Forecasting

• Forecasting of extreme precipitation for the state of Iowa, given historic data for 30 years. The data contained details of 9 variables for 5328 locations(North Hemisphere).

• Used SAOLA (Scalable and Accurate Online Feature Selection Algorithm) to select relevant features from approximately half million features.

• Used oversampling and undersampling techniques like SMOTE and SMOTETOMEK to deal with data imbalance.

• For prediction used KNN, SVM and XGBoost.

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