Data Scientist Los Angeles

Amna Gul

****@********.***.*** 682-***-**** Los Angeles, CA

github.com/guluna linkedin.com/in/agul-cs tinyurl.com/amnagul EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA M.S. Business Analytics Aug 2024 - May 2026

• Coursework: LLM (Building AI Agents), Operations Research, Probability & Statistics, Causal Inference, GIS GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, USA M.S. Data Science Aug 2019 - May 2021

• Recipient of $40,000 Global Leaders Fellowship Award

• Awarded with prestigious Fulbright Scholarship funded by US State Department

• Ranked amongst top 14% out of 1200+ competitor teams in Kaggle’s Chest X-ray Object Detection competition by implementing an ensemble of object detection and classification models to identify thoracic abnormalities. GHULAM ISHAQ KHAN INSTITUTE, PAKISTAN B.S. Computer Systems Aug 2010 -Jun 2014

• Winner of Best Final Year Project at GIKI open house career fair

• Awarded full tuition fee waiver for outstanding performance throughout my undergraduate studies TECHNICAL SKILLS

AI/ML: Supervised and Unsupervised Learning, NLP, Deep Learning, Transfer Learning, LLM fine-tuning and prompt engineering

Tools and Framework: Python (scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Hugging Face), SQL, R, Tableau Big Data and Cloud: AWS, GCP, Apache Spark, Hadoop Responsible AI: Fairness metrics, bias mitigation, model explainability, ethical AI frameworks PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DATA SCIENTIST Asian Development Bank Jul 2022 - June 2023

• Conducted large-scale predictive modeling and statistical analysis to extract actionable insights for real- time economic indicators, showcasing expertise in big data and predictive analytics.

• Engineered a scalable data ingestion and processing pipeline for real-time maritime traffic monitoring, leveraging Big Data technologies (>8 billion data points) and advanced machine learning techniques, reducing storage and processing needs by 86%.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with international teams to publish a peer-reviewed methodology on unlocking insights from Automatic Identification System (AIS) data: Publication Link. DATA SCIENTIST Teradata Corporation Aug 2021 - Jun 2022

• Developed advanced Computer Vision pipelines to assess drilling equipment damage, leveraging Python and PyTorch to enhance evaluation accuracy by 30%, demonstrating expertise in AI-driven solutions.

• Designed and deployed interactive dashboards for a major healthcare insurance provider using Network Graph Analysis, uncovering associations between medical conditions, and enabling 18% savings on claims costs.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR State Bank of Pakistan Aug 2015 - Aug 2019

• Designed and implemented national refinancing schemes and credit guarantee facilities, enabling over PKR 30 billion (~USD 190M) in access to finance for underserved segments, including women-led MSMEs.

• Spearheaded a cross-departmental initiative leveraging A/B testing to integrate sex-disaggregated data in SME reporting frameworks, laying the groundwork for gender-sensitive policymaking. LEADERSHIP AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TOASTMASTERS INTERNATIONAL (Teradata Chapter) Secretary and Competitor TEACHING ASSISTANT (USC) Business Analytics Courses

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