Atishay Jain

Syracuse, New York · (315) 930-5897 · atjaincn@gmail.com

I am an Information Management professional, passionate about telling stories backed up by data. My goal is to combine my technical and business skills to reach smarter business decisions. I am currently researching on fake news early detection using machine learning. After securing my master's degree I plan to use my knowledge in data science to generate actionable insights for companies.


Experience

Data Scientist Mentorship

SharpestMinds

Working under the supervision of Oren Shklarsky, Senior Data Scientist at Postmates.

Building a personalized recommendation system and user interface, to recognize healthy and unhealthy food products for users from their genome data and by analyzing nutrients in different food products to reduce the risk of catching a disease

Combining data from various sources to detect traits like lactose & gluten & classifying food products as healthy/unhealthy

Feb 2019 - Present

Machine Learning Engineer

Syracuse University

Conducting research under Dr. Reza Zafarani on fake news early detection by using machine learning on news content of two-real world datasets

Exploring fake news characteristics at lexicon-level, syntax-level, semantic-level & discourse-level enabling interpretability

Outperforming current content/propagation-based models and comparable to hybrid models based on experimental results

Dec 2018 - Present

Faculty Assistant

Syracuse University

Researching with Professor Jeffrey Saltz on metrics for tracking work of a data analytics team using agile methodology

Building & testing an environment to enable collaboration of a data science team with distribution and monitoring of tasks

Aug 2017 - Present

Business Technology Analyst Intern

ZS Associates

Improved reporting efficiency by building dynamic graphs using Neo4j which resulted in savings of over $10k in expenses

Improved marketing effectiveness by analyzing sales performance, customer engagement & marketing expenditure datasets

Created pipelines to automate data cleaning process resulting in a 35% reduction in the time required to perform these steps

Enforced master data management principles to create project workflow & carry out various data cleaning & munging steps

Coordinated with the internal and offshore team to create deliverables and facilitate project progress and product development

Performed data analysis on healthcare data to derive quantitative & qualitative insights which improved the marketing effort of the client

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

Software Developer

Mirraw.com

Developed front end of iOS application, for ecommerce, from scratch which accounted for 30% of sales for the company

Created automated personalized notifications for customers from past behavior & increased notification click rate by 15%

Instituted user action analysis to interpret user patterns for targeted marketing, increasing engagement with app by 10%

Jun 2016 – Jun 2017

Projects

Audio Search, Artificial Neural Networks  

Syracuse University

• Conceptualizing a deep convolutional neural network architecture to search for specific audio signals in the input video file
• Executing steps to perform feature engineering on video files, to recognize laugh tracks and output a video without them
• Using transfer learning, data augmentation, and regularization to avoid overfitting and increasing overall model accuracy
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

Gender Prediction, Analytical Data Mining  

Syracuse University

You can interact with the project here - Application

• Implementing a machine learning solution to predict the gender of a user using their user profile and some of their tweets
• Visualized various features using Matplotlib & seaborn to understand the features and their relations with the gender of the user
• Performing steps like feature extraction, feature selection and, text normalization to get better results from the dataset
• Utilizing cross-validation and ensemble methods(boosting) to obtain better predictive performance and build a robust mode
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018

Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Solution, Data Warehouse  

Syracuse University
• Identify functional requirements with value analysis & implement them in business processes to model data warehouse
• Use Power BI to carry out meaningful & actionable business intelligence on data & setup business intelligence dashboard
• Apply customer value analysis, personalization & association rules on shopping data to increase purchase probability
Jan 2018 - May 2018

BMI Prediction, Advance Big Data Analytics  

Syracuse University
• Analyzing large data sets by loading them in Hadoop clusters & developing machine learning pipelines in Spark & Python
• Creating statistical models to determine important factors in American time use survey data & assessing model accuracy
• Using neural networks to predict how people utilize time & identifying activity patterns which can be potential health risk
Jan 2018 - May 2018

Net Promoter Score Prediction, Applied Data Science  

Syracuse University
• Performed data munging, data transformation, data modeling & visualization on a hotel chain data set of 15 million rows
• Analyzed data patterns, correlations & associations using classification & regression functions achieving actionable insights
• Completed descriptive & predictive analytics, achieved data-based decision making & improved business performance
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

Database Administration & Management  

Syracuse University

• Implemented system to automate order processing, cost computation & warehouse management with inventory analysis
• Created user interface for business client to manage products, transactions and transportation in MS Access
• Conducted requirement analysis & gathered data to setup database of the company using MS SQL Server & MS Visio
Aug 2017 - Dec 2017

Education

Syracuse University

Master of Science in Data Science / Information Management

GPA: 3.95/4

Relevant Coursework: Analytical Data Mining, Artificial Neural Networks, Applied Data Science, Big Data Analytics, Data Warehouse, Information System Analysis, Information Management, Management Principles, Project Management
Aug 2017 - May 2019

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering

GPA: 7.33/10

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Programming, Computer Architecture, Soft Computing

Aug 2012 - May 2016

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Data Driven Decision Making
  • Agile Development & Scrum


Awards & Certifications

  • Syracuse University - Information Management Faculty Engagement Scholarship
  • ZS Associates- Certificate of Appreciation: For being able to learn a new coding language in 2 days