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Salil Redkar

339-***-**** adhz42@r.postjobfree.com www.linkedin.com/in/salilredkar

EDUCATION

Brandeis University International Business School Waltham, MA Candidate for MBA in Data Analytics (STEM-Designated) 05/2021 Dean’s Merit Scholarship – 70%

Vice President (External Affairs) of the Data Analytics Club Brandeis University International Business School Waltham, MA Master of Science in Business Analytics (STEM-Designated) 12/2019 Coursework: Machine Learning in Business, Applied Econometrics, Analyzing Big Data, Healthcare Analytics, Independent Study in Natural Language Processing, Independent Study in Audio Signal Classification, Independent Study in NLP for Finance Pennsylvania State University State College, PA

Master of Science in Genetics 12/2014

SIES College of Arts and Science Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Biochemistry 05/2009 ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Audio signal classification using machine learning 09/2019 – 12/2019

• Employing machine learning techniques to classify sounds with applications to 3D printers Drug repurposing using NLP 02/2020 – 05/2020

• Used BERT word embeddings to aid drug repurposing efforts Natural Language Processing for sentiment analysis and summarization 02/2019 - 06/2019

• Employed Long short-term memory (LSTM) model to contextually analyze Yelp review dataset to predict review sentiment based on vectorized review text

• Currently using Deep Learning to summarize multiple reviews for distilling into single coherent review Predicting PM2.5 levels in Shanghai using daily weather data 08/2018 - 12/2019

• Employed regression, clustering and finally Recurrent Neural Networks to predict (particulate matter) PM2.5 on climate variables including precipitation, dew point and wind direction Healthcare Analytics projects 01/2018 - 03/2018

INTERNSHIPS and EXPERIENCE

Brandeis University Waltham, MA

Research Assistant in Data Analysis (Dr. Mary Jo Larson Lab in Behavioral Health) 05/2020 - Present Brandeis University Waltham, MA

Research Assistant in Data Analysis (Dr. Jytte Klausen Lab) 10/2019 – 12/2019 Centre for Translational Data Science (University of Chicago) Chicago, Illinois Summer Intern, Natural Language Processing 07/2019 - 09/2019 Phyzok Learning Solutions LLC Mumbai, India

Content Manager, Biology 01/2016 - 05/2017

SKILLS/ACTIVITIES

• Programming: Python (scipy, numpy, scikitlearn, pandas), R (tidyverse), Java, C, SQL (MySQL, Postgre SQL), C++

• Tools/Software: NLTK, Stanford CoreNLP, Scikit, TensorFlow, Tableau, Databricks, DataRobot, Teradata, Qualtrics

• Certifications: Professional Scrum Master I (Scrum.org)