Awhan Patnaik
AI And Data Science Specialist
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAwhan Patnaik is an AI and Data Science Specialist with 12 years of experience translating complex data and language models into business value, currently building conversational and text-driven interfaces for CPQ, sales, and customer support at Predictika. He blends a PhD-level foundation in control, modeling and optimization from IIT Kanpur with hands-on expertise in NLP, predictive analytics and Big Data stacks (Hadoop/Hive/Impala) gained across ad tech and consulting roles. His work spans practical production deployments—RTB systems and document retrieval/classification pipelines—to product-facing conversational workflows, reflecting both research rigor and pragmatic delivery. Known for a pedantic appetite for learning, he excels at coercing messy data into actionable insights that improve market access and operational workflows. Based in Pune, he brings a rare mix of academic depth, teaching experience, and applied machine learning engineering.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical Engineering at B.P. Poddar Institute Of Management and Technology
Hindi, Odia, Bengali
Github Skills (59)
text-classification10
cython10
arabic-nlp9
data-science9
artificial-intelligence9
named-entity-recognition9
pandas9
entity-linking9
language-processing9
python9
machine-learning9
fairness-ml9
natural-language-processing9
spacy9
data-preprocessing9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awhan/configs
Nov 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:74 commits, 62 pushes in 4 years 4 months
awhan/appyutils
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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