Akshay Punhani
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Experience
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C3 AI
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Data Scientist
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Apr 2023 - Present
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Data Scientist
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Jan 2021 - Mar 2023
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PayPal
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Scientist
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Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
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University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Student Instructor
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Aug 2019 - Dec 2019
Undergraduate UGBA 164 - Marketing Strategy (Prof. Dave Robinson) Evening MBA EWMBA 295T - Building Consumer Internet Businesses (Prof. Prashant Fuloria) Undergraduate UGBA 164 - Marketing Strategy (Prof. Dave Robinson) Evening MBA EWMBA 295T - Building Consumer Internet Businesses (Prof. Prashant Fuloria)
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PayPal
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Data Science Intern
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May 2019 - Aug 2019
- Built machine learning models with features extracted from user profile/behavioural changes at funding & withdrawal checkpoints to predict fraudulent transactions from account takeovers - Secured the PayPal customer experience by creating a rule based strategy for blocking/AF user profile changes to prevent abuse by fraudsters - Built machine learning models with features extracted from user profile/behavioural changes at funding & withdrawal checkpoints to predict fraudulent transactions from account takeovers - Secured the PayPal customer experience by creating a rule based strategy for blocking/AF user profile changes to prevent abuse by fraudsters
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UC Berkeley School of Information
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Researcher
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Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Built 2-layer robust automated wild animal species classification model trained on highly imbalanced Caltech camera trap images dataset using ensemble of architectures such as VGG-16, VGG-19, Resnet-18 & Resnet-50 achieving accuracy of 60.2% Built 2-layer robust automated wild animal species classification model trained on highly imbalanced Caltech camera trap images dataset using ensemble of architectures such as VGG-16, VGG-19, Resnet-18 & Resnet-50 achieving accuracy of 60.2%
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UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
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United States
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Higher Education
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300 - 400 Employee
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Graduate Student Researcher
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Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
Developed forensic technique using LSTM’s & CNN’s that models facial & linguistic correlations to automatically identify deep fakes doctored videos of world leaders Developed forensic technique using LSTM’s & CNN’s that models facial & linguistic correlations to automatically identify deep fakes doctored videos of world leaders
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University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Aug 2018 - May 2019
Teaching Assistant for two courses : 1. Fundamentals of Business (Marketing, Accounting, Leadership) - 209f 2. Global Leadership - EWMBA 256 Teaching Assistant for two courses : 1. Fundamentals of Business (Marketing, Accounting, Leadership) - 209f 2. Global Leadership - EWMBA 256
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PwC
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Professional Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Associate
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Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
• Spearheaded a cross functional team of 10+ for conducting data security and privacy assessments of 100+ ecosystem partners of the world’s largest biometric database which includes banks, telecoms, e-commerce etc. generating $200k+ revenue • Mapped out $5million investment strategies for GoI in User Behavioral Analytics (UBA) & cybersecurity tools to stem insider threats & data breaches • Established mechanism to detect frauds and strengthen the fraud data analytics framework by analysis of transaction logs data generated for 60million+ authentications on daily basis for 500+ ecosystem partners of Govt. client • Strengthened the regulatory framework of National ID by recommending best privacy & data security practices from US &European laws • Developed “PhishPro”, an automated phishing tool to conduct social engineering campaigns by executing spear phishing attacks for clients Show less
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Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
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India
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Higher Education
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500 - 600 Employee
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Student Convener, Placement
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May 2015 - Jun 2016
• Selected to head 22-member placement committee out of 6 candidates; facilitated campus placements and internships for 250+ candidates• Boosted median compensation by 22% with 39% rise in offers; single handedly brought 7 new companies to which made 10+ offers• Conducted in-house mock placement tests, group discussions & interviews for 200+ 3rd year students to prepare them for recruitments
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Research Intern
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Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
- Vital Cardiac Health Parameters Estimation Developed algorithm to extract several features such as pulse transit time, systolic upstroke etc. from ECG and PPG signals; • Applied the algorithm on 82 subjects from MIMIC (Critical Care Database) and University of Queensland database• Predicted blood pressure by building polynomial regression models to exploit correlation between features extracted from ECG and PPG signals; MIMIC (Critical Care) and University of Queensland databases were used in analysis of the cardiac signals• Developed android application to non-invasively determine blood oxygenation level (Spo2) using camera and pulse rate (using PCG) Show less
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Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
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India
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Higher Education
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500 - 600 Employee
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Core Member, Student Senate
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Dec 2013 - Jul 2014
• 1/9 members elected to highest student academic body amongst 180+ candidates; worked directly in collaboration with Director, IIITD and Dean of academic affairs • Ideated and implemented the Confabs Program, the first of its kind student led tutorial program, which allowed 200+ freshmen and sophomores with below 7 CGPA to get personal mentorship and tuition from senior year students • Led discussions with undergraduate committee for introduction of online courses from Coursera and edX in lieu of credits Show less
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Education
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University of California, Berkeley
Master's degree, Management Information Systems - Data Science, Machine Learning -
UC Berkeley School of Information
Master's degree, Management Information Systems -
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering -
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram
Class XII : 95.80% -
Delhi Public School Navi Mumbai
Class X : 96%