Aakhila Shaheen
AI Engineer at Target
AI Engineer, Target
Target
https://www.linkedin.com/company/target
Working with the Search AI team on Query Understanding and Ranking problems.
San Francisco Bay Area
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AI Engineer
University of Minnesota
https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-minnesota
TA for Program/Software Design and Development (CSCI3081) 
TA for DataStructures And Algorithms (CSCI4041)
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Target
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Extended the custom built A/B testing platform supporting multi-channels including digital, apps, stores, and more. The platform provides end-to-end experiments for lifecycle management and real-time analytics to make product level decisions.
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Data Science Engineer Intern
Snapdeal
https://www.linkedin.com/company/snapdeal
Worked with the Catalog Management team to create scalable solutions to serve data. Focused on building a next generation catalog, using open source technologies engineered to scale. Some of the projects include:

Data Modelling:
Led architectural changes to replace existing Mysql infrastructure with a NoSQL database for achieving better performance and scale for the application
Catalog Assortment:
Provided insights into data to the product team as well as Engineering Leaders to accelerate the growth of catalog by improving content quality
Database Tuning:
Tuned Cassandra cluster for optimal performance by introducing effective caching, compaction by analysing the read and write production loads and profiling the application
Data Cleanup:
Developed a generic peer-to-peer distributed Lucene module to avoid content duplication in the catalog which lead to the improvement in search results for the end user
Data Quality Improvement: 
Developed an on demand content score calculator for the products in the catalog and suggested improvements in the content to the product team which lead to significant improvement in user experience.
New Delhi Area, India
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Software Developer - 2
Masters
Computer Science
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-minnesota/
Bachelor's degree
Computer Science
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Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
https://www.linkedin.com/school/birla-institute-of-technology-and-science-pilani/
Developed a matrix factorization model to infer hidden contextual information while analyzing user-item ratings, along with a custom variational inference algorithm that scales to massive data sets. Presented this work at MMLS’19.
Mixed Membership Poisson Factorization
Midwest Machine Learning Symposium'19
Worked with Prof. Jon Weissman to adapt techniques from global Bayesian optimization with constraints for compiler flag optimization to maximize executable performance.
Compiler flag optimization
Worked with Prof. Abhishek Chandra to explore current research trends and topics in machine learning at scale in distributed, heterogenous and bandwidth constrained environments. Summarized findings in a forthcoming review paper.
Supervised Study - DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS GROUP
1. Research on networking protocols to establish end-to-end communications between
    nodes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs)
2. A DTN protocol over OLSR to form a Structured Mesh Overlay Network (SMON) was
    found as a viable option to improve connectivity.
Improving Manet using DTN
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranjal-patil1995
Mountain View, CA
Pranjal Patil
Vice President, Applied AI ML Lead at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashishdattani
San Francisco Bay Area
Aashish Dattani
Lead Engineer at Target
https://www.linkedin.com/in/skylergrammer
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Skyler Grammer
Senior AI Scientist at Target
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-sierra-099aba174
Las Cruces, NM
Andrew Sierra
Team Lead at Target
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikhasuneja
Seattle, WA
Shikha Suneja
Production Engineer at Meta
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamalikap001
Redmond, WA
Kamalika Poddar
Software Engineer II at Microsoft | Speaker
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinnadhuraisankar
San Francisco Bay Area
Chinnadhurai Sankar
Research Scientist at Meta AI | Previously @ MILA, Montréal | Google Brain | Microsoft Research
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joeymacnichols
Campbell, CA
Joseph MacNichols
Aspiring CFO
https://in.linkedin.com/in/nitin-kumar-687387179
Lucknow
Nitin Kumar
10+ years experience in Software Development
https://in.linkedin.com/in/devendra-kumar-yadav-53017420
Bengaluru
Devendra Kumar Yadav
Architect | Technology Leader at H&M
https://in.linkedin.com/in/ajaiu
Bengaluru
Ajai U
Manager, Account Management and Business Development at Amazon
https://in.linkedin.com/in/srinivas-raju-a703b0139
Bengaluru
Srinivas Raju
Assistant sales specialist at Prione Business Services Pvt. Ltd. (“Prione”)
https://in.linkedin.com/in/kanika-jain-412063223
Ludhiana
Kanika Jain
Sales Associate at Prione Business Services Pvt. Ltd. (“Prione”)
https://in.linkedin.com/in/aman-phillaura-8a54941b2
Delhi, India
Aman Phillaura
Sales Associate at Prione Business Services Pvt. Ltd.
https://in.linkedin.com/in/vismith-bhatt-4aa05b3a
Bengaluru
Vismith Bhatt
Building AJIO | Ex - Flipkart | Ex - Spencer's Retail
https://in.linkedin.com/in/sachinmehta
Bengaluru
Sachin Mehta
Amazon | Product Management | Analytics | Customer Success | ex-Ernst & Young
https://in.linkedin.com/in/aniruddh-soory-86971913
Mumbai
Aniruddh Soory
Building the world's largest marketplace
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Ranchi
Bratin Basu
Executive at CMPDI
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