About Me

Seasoned Data Scientist, product leader and problem solver with over 7 years of experience in machine learning, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to design data-driven actionable strategies, yielding consistent revenue growth.
Recognized as a collaborative leader, with the ability to align cross-functional teams and solve complex business problems from concept through business delivery.

Contact Details

Apurva Swarnakar
347 W Chestnut St
Chicago, IL, US, 60610
apurvaswarnakar9@gmail.com

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

MS, Computer Science •

Neural Networks, Natural Language Processing, Applied Numerical Optimization
Algorithms for Data Science, Probabilistic Graphical Models
Business Intelligence and Analytics (Data Quality & Normalization, Relational & Dimensional modeling)
Reinforcement Learning, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Software Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

B.Tech, Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering•

Programming and Data Structure, Data Structure and Object Representation,
Probability and Stochastic Process, Design and Analysis of Algorithms

MOOCs

Machine Learning - University of Washington
The Data Scientists Toolbox - John Hopkins University,
Deep Learning specialisation

Skills

Python, SQL, PySpark, R, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy, Git, AWS, Databricks, Kubeflow
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Big Data analytics & Visualization, Large Language Models, Deep Learning,
Predictive Modeling, Recommendation systems, Calssification, Sentiment analysis, Topic Modeling, Clustering
Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Model Deployment, Fast Experimentation, Building Cross-Functional Consensus

Work Experience

Intuit

Senior Data Scientist • Feb 2021 - Sep 2024

Senior Data Scientist Intern• June 2020 - August 2020

Won an Innovation Award from Intuit's AI organization (~3000 people) along with 5 team members, as part of "top of the funnel" personalization

GE Healthcare

Graduate Student ML Researcher• January 2020 - April 2020

ZS Associates

Data Science Associate Consultant• June 2016 - July 2019

Quest Hackathon, Awarded in two categories - Best in ROI and Technical Feasibility for Heart rate abnormality detection app

Leadership Roles

University research liaison, Intuit

Collaborated with UCSD professor and PhD students to generate universal user embeddings based on their clickstream activity

External vendor partner, Intuit

Partenered with Crossings Minds to build state of the art recommendation engine for personalizing brand home page

Course Assistant, UMass Amherst

Assisting professor for Foundation of Robotics course grading and brainstorming with students during office hours

Founding Committee Member, Kharagpur Data Analytics Group, IIT Kharagpur

Co-founded KDAG to create a public students forum to learn and discuss together machine learning algorithms and their applications to a wide range of problems through brainstroming and practicing problems such as theft prediction, clustering Google news' topics and sentiments

Governor, Communique (Soft-skills society), IIT Kharagpur

Led a team of 15 members to organize events for soft skills development, increased the event count by 100% and piloted new in-house initiatives such as Design Thinking, Glossophobia workshop and English Learning Program

Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2013 Intern , IIT Kharagpur

Publicized about Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Jaipur. I successfully brought a first time outstation participation of 10 participants and 5 media articles in local newspapers