Akhil Punia
Senior Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAkhil Punia is a Senior Data Scientist with 10 years of experience, currently leading analytics work for Financial Services clients at EY in New York. He specializes in turning large, messy datasets into C-suite-ready insights using Python, Spark/Databricks, SQL, Neo4j and Azure, and has led a team to produce high-performing credit risk models (XGBoost AUC > 0.8) and explainable outputs via SHAP and partial dependence analysis. His background blends an MS in Data Science from Columbia with hands-on modeling across imbalanced classification, feature engineering and outreach optimization for collections, reflecting both technical depth and business impact. Colleagues describe him as a data nerd and optimist who pairs rigorous experimentation with pragmatic delivery, and he often surfaces nonobvious data limitations early to shape better modeling strategies.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics at Vellore Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
German, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (34)
natural-language-understanding9
capstone9
recurrent-neural-networks9
activity-recognition9
six9
bacteria9
nlp9
lstm8
natural-language-processing8
google8
smartphone8
lstm-neural-networks8
datasets7
machine-learning7
tensorflow7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stoicdataguy/movielens-recommender-system
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A recommender system to try out the algorithms and techniques discussed in E4571
Contributions:47 commits in 1 day
techniquespythonrecommendercollaborative-filteringmachine-learning
AkhilPunia/cdss_applied_ml_2019
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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