About Me

Aman Kedia

Coding Enthusiast. Deeply intrigued by Data Structures & Algorithms. Mathematics is love. Machine Learning is Life. Gregarious mostly, love meeting new people and exchanging thoughts. Open to technologies and trying out new things.

Often trusts data more than models. Not always. Often prefers Latex over Word. Not always. Often prefers Prezi over Power-Point. Not always.

My Timeline

Guest Faculty, Data Science and Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology & Science

Taking live sessions on Data Mining and webinars on Artificial Intelligence for 200+ M. Tech students part of BITS’ Work Integrated Learning Program..

Apr. 2019 - Present
Professional

Software Developer 3-Senior Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Working for Oracle Digital Assistant team as Data Science and Backend Developer. Studied the latest state of the art research in NLP and developed Named Entity Recognizers for identifying Persons, Locations and rganizations from sentences using Transfer Learning from Google's Bidirectional Encoded Representation from Transformers (BERT) model achieving 99.1% accuracy.

Jul. 2019 - Present
Professional

Software Developer 2-Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Worked for Oracle Digital Assistant team as Data Science and Backend Developer. Developed a framework for extracting Date, Time, Duration, Set and Email entities from utterances. Designed and established the Kafka pipeline for supporting messaging including devising of Scale out capabilities on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Also, worked on developing Kubernetes Cluster monitoring capabilities for Kafka, Elasticsearch and Zookeeper.

Jul. 2018 - Jul. 2019
Professional

Scholar | Machine Learning Developer, SAP Labs

Working for Innovation Center Network (ICN) as a Machine Learning (ML) and Full Stack Developer. Built a model evaluation platform from scratch. Developing Deep Learning and Machine Learning models catering to Natural Language Processing.

Apr. 2017 - May. 2018
Professional

Scholar | ABAP Developer, SAP Labs

Worked for Fashion Management Solutions (FMS). Implemented customer enhancements in Sales & Distribution (SD) and Materials Management (MM) modules of SAP ERP System for customers like Adidas.

Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2017
Professional

M.Tech in Software Engineering, Birla Institite of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

Pursued Work Integrated Masters in Technology fully sponsored by SAP. Had weekend classes on various subjects in the SAP campus by professors from BITS. Ranked 1st after two semesters with a CGPA of 9.65. Dissertation Project: Alzheimer's Detection using Neural Networks for 3D Image Classification.

Aug. 2016 - May. 2018

B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Institute of Engineering & Management (IEM), Kolkata

Completed my undergrad from IEM affiliated to West Bengal University of Technology. Obtained a CGPA of 9.22 at the end of the degree. Major project was entitled "Data Science in HealthCare".

Aug 2012 - Jul. 2016

IIRS, Indian Space Research Organization

Worked on Clustering of regions using Time Series Analysis based on similar disease trends. The work was a part of Integrated Disease Survelliance Program, Government of India.

Sep. 2011 - Jun. 2012
Research Intern

Codeblix (a NASSCOM startup)

Worked on developing a hybrid mobile app enabling users to reserve parking slots at various parking venues.

Jun. 2015 - July. 2015
App Development Intern

My Skills

Research

Technical

Machine Learning

Python


Data Mining

R


Feature Selection

Git


Pattern Recognition

Linux/Unix


Computer Vision

C/C++


Medical/Healthcare Analytics

Latex


Natural Language Processing

HTML/CSS/Javascript


Machine Learning Based Projects

Neural Networks for 3D Image Classification: Alzheimer's detection

In this research, we studied a residual connections based 3D convolutional neural network for Alzheimer’s Disease Classification proposed in 2016. We improved on its accuracy using an Inception architecture based neural network. We demonstrated the performance of the approach and compared it with the existing approach for classification of Alzheimer’s disease using 3D structural MRI brain scans.

Data Mining on weekly public health data of Dehradun district

Worked on weekly incidence data of 16 diseases for more than 100 regions in Dehradun. Obtained clusters of regions based on similarity patterns which were subsequently visualized using maps. Also, worked in predicting outbreaks of the diseases and specific regions contributing maximum to the same.
Work submitted to Journal of Indian Society of Remote Sensing, Springer.

Question Classifier and Tagger

Classified Questions from UIUC's CogComp QC Dataset into 6 coarse and 50 fine classes using Named Entity Recognition, Part of Speech Tagging, Lemmas, Syntactic Dependency Relations and Orthography as features. Obtained near State of the Art results with an accuracy of 87.8% over the Coarse classes and 80.7% over the Fine classes using Linear SVM.

Data Mining Techniques in Indian Health Care: a short review

Studied 61 research papers to analyze data science research in Health Care with a special focus on India. Highlighted the patient life cycle and identified the role of major entities at various stages of the lifecycle. Identified areas in Indian health system where data science can play a major role. Also, made a comparison between thing happening in the US versus India.

Empirical Study on Health datasets

Performed a comparitive evaluation of classification algorithms on Health Care Datasets. Built models for 13 datasets using SVM, Naive Bayes', Classification Trees, Random Forests and Gradient Boosting. Performance was evaluted using Accuracy, Precision, Sensitivity and F1 Score. p-tests were used to study statistical significance.

Filter based Feature Selection using Hill Climbing approach

Studied Hill Climbing(HC) as a heuristic search technique. Variations of HC based on randomness, size of neigborhood and direction of search were also studied. Achieved 1.7% better classification accuracy compared to Genetic Algorithm on 20 datasets. Accepted at Natural Computing for Unsupervised Learning, Springer.

Application of Twitter in Health Care sector of India

Extracted tweets to form word clouds and perform top word analysis in order to detect disease patterns based on social media discussion. Emphasis was on studying the impact of Mission Indradhanush (Govt. of India initiative) aiming for full immunization of children.

Envisioning the Evolving Journey of an Organization using Twitter Data: A case study of SAP

Studied the growth and strategical shift of SAP over the past 8 years using 35000+ tweets. Performed Word Cloud, Hashtag and Sentiment analysis on the tweets. Work submitted to MECS Journal.


Academic Projects

BookMyTicket

Developed a complete mobile cum web app to enable users to book movie tickets across multiple theatres. It also provided functionality to book food to be served during the movie.

Kirana

Developed an E-Commerce platform to enable users to buy groceries online from any Kirana store nearest to them. The entire platform described everything in Hindi and English to enhance usability.

College Management System

Developed a system for routine planning and tracking student attendance using VB.Net and Oracle 11g.

Flight Management & Booking System

Developed a Java Swing based system for booking flights across Indian cities and also Singpaore.


Miscellaneous

Coding Accomplishments

Other Accomplishments

  • Innovation Award, SAP.

    Awarded for developing a system in What The Hack hackathon capable of matching candidates with skill sets based on Resumes and online scraped data
  • Selected to be part of Machine Learning Enablement Community, SAP Labs India

    Amongst the shortlisted top 50 coders in Are you the One, programming contest organized by SAP
  • Certifications from DeepLearning.ai (Coursera)

  • R Certification, John Hopkins University (Coursera)

  • Sougata Mondal Memorial Award, Institute of Engineering & Management

    Awarded during Senior year at UG institute for outstanding contribution
  • Outstanding Student of The Year, Institute of Engineering & Management

    Awarded during Junior year at UG institute for overall contribution
  • Winner, Student Lecture Series, Brahma Tejas, SPIE

    Awarded by SPIE chapter, IEM for presenting lecture on nanotechnology
  • Gyanwati Lath Memorial Scholarship, Abhinav Bharati High School

    Awarded twice among two possible opportunities for securing highest marks in class V and X
  • Outstanding Student of The Year, Abhinav Bharati High School

    Awarded twice among two possible opportunities for overall contribution to the school
  • Ranked 3rd in CSE Department, IEM in a batch of more than 150 students

  • R Certification, John Hopkins University (Coursera)

  • Bournvita Confidence Champion


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