Avinash Balakrishnan
Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvinash Balakrishnan is a Data Scientist with 11 years of experience, currently driving sales analytics and building robust data pipelines in the Chief Analytics Office at IBM. He brings a strong research background from IBM Research’s AI groups and the MIT‑IBM AI Lab, where he developed machine learning models and explored the intersection of ML and symbolic reasoning. His academic training (MS in Statistics from UIUC) underpins practical work in deep learning for audio signal processing and time series, informing production-ready solutions. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he combines statistical rigor with engineering pragmatism. Based in San Francisco, he has a mechanical engineering foundation and a habit of applying manufacturing-quality thinking to analytics problems, often focusing on traceability and process robustness.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering at SRM UniversityHigh School, Science with Computers, High School, Science with Computers at The Lawrence School, LovedaleUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Tamil
Github Skills (24)
armadillo9
visual-recognition9
rcpp8
state-space8
robust7
matching7
variance6
deep-learning6
lasagne6
pytorch6
dtw5
wavelet5
moments5
r5
time-series4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ProfessorBrunner/mat-genome
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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