Deshana Desai
Machine Learning Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDeshana Desai is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience applying deep neural networks to computer vision problems, currently building ML solutions at Reddit after a multi-year tenure scaling models at AiCure. With a master’s in computer science from NYU Courant and prior research at IIT Gandhinagar, she bridges academic rigor and production ML—teaching a computer vision course as a graduate adjunct and publishing applied research on food recognition, object detection, and text spotting. She has progressed from research intern to senior engineering roles, demonstrating strength in deploying vision models in real-world products and clinical-facing applications. Based in New York, she combines hands-on model development and experimentation with a curiosity-driven, hypothesis-testing mindset cultivated during early research on curiosity and learning. Contactable via deshana.desai@nyu.edu, she maintains a public GitHub for reproducible work and collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
71reputation
11kreached
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1question
Github Skills (49)
forge10
arxiv10
conda9
visual-question-answering8
matlab8
pdf8
conda-forge7
visual7
code-generator7
initialization6
data-augmentation6
ruby-on-rails6
question-answering6
ruby6
java6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
deshanadesai/SnipLog
Dec 2014 - Nov 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
deshanadesai/Symptom-X-
Jun 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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