Umang C.

Data Scientist at Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University
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Experience

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Data Scientist
      • Jul 2021 - Present

      Consultant for faculty and staff across all departments of the University for various Data science projects and proposalsConsultant for industry clients on their Data Science problems and proposalsLeading teams of undergraduate, MS and PhD students with domain experts on research projects across various departmentsat Vanderbilt and beyondTeaching public workshops (online and offline) on data science skills like GitHub Flow, Gradio, ML with Scikit-learn and tidymodels, DVC, NBDev, ML Flow, Great Expectations, Transformers, Large Language Models and moreSystem Administrator for DGX A100 GPUs – developed user management scripts, slurm, docker and other essential services for training deep neural networks and transformer modelsHelped develop state of the art Transformer models for assistive technologies for those with developmental disabilities and developed the email and text-based backends required to make the technologies accessible on AWS Show less

    • Graduate Research Assistant, Data Scientist
      • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

      Part-Time Data Scientist on the DS Team at Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute. Assisted with ongoing projects as a project manager and coder. Managed and assisted a team of graduate and undergraduate research interns in developing predictive models and shiny dashboards for multiple projects part of the Data Science for Social Good program. Helped manage and organize workshops and organization GitHub repositories.

    • Graduate Teaching Assistant
      • Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

      I serve as one of the teaching assistants for Survey of Data Science Applications, a graduate-level course offered by the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University. My responsibilities include preparing cases for students to study, working with the class instructor to develop course material, grading, and providing academic support for students.

    • United States
    • Insurance
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Data Science Intern
      • Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

      Predicted likelihood of customers purchasing optional coverages using Generalized Linear Models and Gradient Boosting Machines in Python Developed GLM to predict customer's propensity to buy a policy from the general with 28x segmentation ability between top and bottom tier customers. Identified characteristics influencing buying behavior to help target the right customers by promoting additional coverages Sourced data from servers using Microsoft SQL Server and performed multiple one-way analyses in Python Presented findings to senior leadership at Data Science Showcases Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • HR Attrition Analytics Consulting Workshop
      • Oct 2019 - Oct 2019

      Lead Data Scientist (Consultant) Worked with 6 HR executives from different companies, demonstrating the power of AI and data science in talent retention and development Used feature engineering in R to develop relevant metrics for predicting employee attrition and associated costs with real- time inputs from HR executives Applied machine learning algorithms using H2O (Random Forest, AutoML) on the IBM attrition dataset to simulate the accrued cost savings Lead Data Scientist (Consultant) Worked with 6 HR executives from different companies, demonstrating the power of AI and data science in talent retention and development Used feature engineering in R to develop relevant metrics for predicting employee attrition and associated costs with real- time inputs from HR executives Applied machine learning algorithms using H2O (Random Forest, AutoML) on the IBM attrition dataset to simulate the accrued cost savings

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Intern - Institute for Software Integrated Systems
      • May 2018 - May 2019

      Public Transit in Nashville: Accessibility, optimization and air quality Analyzed population and demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau along with geospatial data on mobility via public transport in Nashville to determine what populations within the city do not have access to transit systems Statistical analysis using R and Python, traffic modeling, and mobility analysis in OpenTripPlanner, ArcGIS, and MatSim to help develop a transit plan that improves the living conditions for populations affected by gentrification Research continued as part of Undergraduate Honors Thesis Show less

    • United States
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Research Assistant - Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
      • May 2017 - Aug 2017

      Collected Speleothem records from Shasta Caves in California for paleoclimate analysis. Analysis of collected samples using laser ablation and micro drilling. Collected Speleothem records from Shasta Caves in California for paleoclimate analysis. Analysis of collected samples using laser ablation and micro drilling.

  • RK Swamy BBDO
    • Mumbai, India
    • Marketing Intern
      • May 2016 - Aug 2016

      Social Media monitoring; Print and online PR analysis for Mercedes-Benz India and six of its competitors, analyzing initiatives by each company to help develop a new marketing campaign for the Indian market Prepared a pitch presentation for a prospective client – Oral B Social media analysis for LIC India, the largest insurance company in the country Assisted with research on automobile sales for different segments of the Indian automobile industry, to support the development of a new creative campaign for Isuzu India Show less

Education

  • Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University
    Master of Science - MS, Data Science
    2019 -
  • Vanderbilt University
    Earth and Environmental Science, Communication of Science and Technology
    2015 - 2019
  • Singapore International School
    International Baccalaureate Diploma
    2012 - 2015

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