Background

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                                                                                               Dec 2022

Thesis: Multi-Modal Consensus Clustering to Identify Phenotypes of Kidney Transplant Donors and Recipients and their Association with Survival

Courses: Machine Learning for Big Data, Natural Language Processing, Research Methods and Statistics, Data Mining and Warehousing

Birla Institute of Technology, Muscat, Oman                                                                                                             Aug 2018

Relevant Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Database Management Systems, Data Structures, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems

• Held internal awards throughout the program for academic performance.
• Organized and led workshops on building PCs and troubleshooting them.
• Participated and won several competitions including those in PC building/troubleshooting and data modeling.
• Worked as the Technical Club Secretary for the Student Advisory Council during 2017 - 2018.

AXIS Specialty Canada Services, ULC., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                                   Dec 2024 - Feb 2026

•  Collecting and wrangling datasets while understanding the structure and limitations of source systems. 
• Applying machine learning techniques to build models that address business challenges. 
• Leveraging generative AI to automate tasks and extract insights from unstructured data.
• Supporting the development of prototypes and data science solutions under senior guidance. 
• Assisting with the deployment of analytics microservices using cloud-based tools. 
• Reviewing third-party data products and contributing to vendor assessments. 
• Building relationships with business partners to support collaboration and solution delivery. 
• Developing knowledge of AXIS’s business, products, and the (re)insurance industry. 

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada                                                                        Mar 2023 - Dec 2023

                                                                                                                                                        (Previously Sep 2020 - Dec 2022)

• Conducting community-based safety assessments and gathering data on student concerns related to campus security and well-being.
• Collaborating with university departments and student groups to promote awareness of DalSAFE initiatives and support inclusive safety programming.
• Analyzing feedback and survey data to inform improvements in safety outreach and policy communication.
• Advocating for marginalized student populations, ensuring their voices were represented in safety planning and response efforts.
• Developing and delivering educational content on safety protocols, emergency preparedness, and harm reduction strategies using tools such as Canva and Microsoft Office Suite.

Dalhousie Student Union, Halifax, Nova Scotia                                                                                 Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

• Recorded clear, concise, and accurate meeting minutes for every Council meeting, ensuring a comprehensive and organized record of proceedings. 
• Skillfully prepared, edited, and promptly distributed meeting minutes to Council members for review and approval, streamlining the decision-making process. 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Certification                                                                                                                   Nov 2023

Highlights:

• Importance of cloud computing and benefits facilitated by using AWS services.
• Insights into the diverse array of services offered by AWS spanning areas such as analytics, storage, machine learning, and networking.
• How an organization can migrate their services to AWS as well as the various frameworks, strategies and tools available to ensure you are utilizing AWS properly and following best practices.
• Securing your services on AWS with available tools, practices and services available. 
• Ability to manage your entire organization's resources and platforms on AWS, using AWS. 
• Exploring costs, setting budgets and understanding the various pricing options available for AWS customers based on their organization's needs and computing requirements.

University of California, Davis - Certificate                                                                                                                     Aug 2023

Highlights:

• Importance of SQL and the different types of database management systems and roles.
• Performing Filtering, Sorting, Calculations, Joins and Subqueries in SQL.
• Efficient coding in SQL and the use of aliases and pre-qualifiers.
• Need for data governance and profiling and how SQL is used in Data Science.
• Yelp dataset exploration and analysis with SQL queries.

Stanford University & DeepLearning.AI - Certificate                                                                                                    Jul 2023

Courses:

• Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
• Advanced Learning Algorithms
• Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders and Reinforcement Learning

Highlights:

• Statistical foundations of various algorithms and techniques in Machine Learning
• Building ML models from scratch and using popular libraries such as TensorFlow and Keras.
• Optimizing algorithms performance and strategies to cope with issues such as overfitting and underfitting.
• Performing error analysis and model evaluation.
• Understanding best practices in ML across aspects such as model selection, ethics and deployment.