Mya J. Bakhova, Ph.D.
linkedin.com/in/myabakhova myabakhova.blogspot.com
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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Languages: Python (Anaconda, Jupyter Notebook, pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, Keras, tensorflow, SpaCy, nltk), R (RStudio, ggplot2, tidyverse, tidymodels, caret, Rmarkdown, Shiny, Leaflet)
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Statistical modeling: Linear and Logistic Regressions, ANOVA, k-NN, SVM, Bayesian, random forests, PCA, LMI, LDA, clustering, extreme gradient boosting, NLP, cross-validation with hyper-parameter optimization, image recognition, neural networks like CNN, RNN, LSTM and other forecasting algorithms
Data mining: SQL queries with stored procedures (a gold medal on Hackerrank.com), in particular BigQuery; MongoDB
Apache Spark on DataBricks with PySpark, ML Pipelines
Data visualization, presentation skills
OS: Linux, Windows, Mac
Github version control
SELECTED ONLINE PUBLISHED DATA SCIENCE PROJECTS
99.6% of Russian Troll detection by their tweets with my original features and a customized sklearn Transformer to work in sklearn Pipeline, NLP with Python. Here is my summary article with links to my kaggle notebooks (3 parts): https://tinyurl.com/yyk9bcna I published 2 image recognition projects: https://tinyurl.com/3rcs8jwa https://tinyurl.com/yc3mj7h8 Redone PySpark scripts of Machine Learning pipeline, PySpark: https://bit.ly/3pLDPgZ A/B testing, video for methods working in real time: https://bit.ly/3xcDeZe Shiny app for bacterium counts on San Diego coast line: https://tinyurl.com/37aw6ap9 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Data Scientist/Analyst Independent Contractor (2016 - Present)
Operations research with ML methods
Numerous Regression/Classification analysis projects
Deep Learning projects and consultations for finance and health treatments
Created automated report documents using Rmarkdown
Text pre-processing, network centrality analysis Lead Technologist Auticon (2021, summer)
A small data science project, covered by NDA
Participation in staff training
NLP Lecturer San Diego State University (2020, Spring semester)
Taught graduate students at Linguistics department Statistics and Machine Learning techniques for NLP. Machine Learning Teaching Assistant SuperDataScience(2017 – 2018)
Consulted students on Machine Learning methods, statistical concepts, visualization, programming syntax, and installation issues. In particular A/B testing was covered.
Answered questions up to 6 hours/day, 32-40 hours per week EDUCATION
PhD. Mathematics, Louisiana State University
M.A. Mathematics, University of Oregon
Passed actuarial exams: Financial Math, Statistics, ANOVA M.S. Mathematics, Statistics, Krasnoyarsk State University CITIZENSHIP
I'm a US citizen.
Mya J. Bakhova, Ph.D.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Volunteered at evacuee shelters at Louisiana State University campus after Hurricanes Katrina (2005) and Gustav (2008).
Had been participating in event organization for the University International Student Center.
Organized meetup group “San Diego Women in Data Science”.