Ayanava Sarkar
Applied Science at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAyanava Sarkar is an applied science and machine learning professional with a strong research background in computer vision and deep learning, currently working at Amazon in Palo Alto. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and a BE from BITS Pilani, and brings roughly a decade of industry experience spanning startups and larger teams across the San Francisco Bay Area. His roles have ranged from AI research scientist and ML engineer to senior data scientist, reflecting hands-on work deploying ML models in healthcare, NLP, and vision-focused applications. Ayanava has combined academic research stints — including a visiting scholar position in Germany and graduate research at Amazon — with pragmatic product-facing engineering, making him effective at bridging research and production. He is actively seeking full-time opportunities in Vision and NLP and is notable for carrying both scholarship-earned academic rigor and repeated cross-functional impact in data-driven teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
371reputation
512kreached
3answers
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Github Skills (26)
gestures10
twitter-client8
wrapper8
lstm8
keras8
scrape8
twitter-api8
tweepy7
twitter7
deep-learning6
tensorflow6
tesseract6
scraper6
db26
machine-learning6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ayanavasarkar/Convolutional_Self-Organising-Maps
Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
ayanavasarkar/Face_Detection_HOG
Dec 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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