Girish Ponkiya
Data Scientist (VP)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolGirish Ponkiya is a Data Scientist and VP at ISS with 11 years of experience bridging applied AI and research rigor, grounded in a PhD in NLP from IIT Bombay. He has progressed through senior data science leadership roles at ISS and ISS ESG, applying NLP and ML to ESG and financial datasets to drive product-grade solutions. His background includes hands-on ML consulting and early research internships focused on semantic relations and noun-compound interpretation, reflecting a long-standing interest in language understanding. Based in Mumbai, he blends academic depth with production delivery, mentoring teams and shipping robust models for real-world decision-making. An uncommon strength is his combination of enterprise ESG domain experience with doctoral-level NLP expertise, enabling practical innovation at the intersection of AI and responsible investing.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayM. Tech. Computer Science, M. Tech. Computer Science at Cybersecurity
Hindi, Gujarati, English
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Github Skills (83)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
streamlit10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
machine-learning10
bert10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
girishponkiya/girishponkiya.github.io
Oct 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:17 pushes in 5 years 9 months
girishponkiya/framenet-tools
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Annotate text with FrameNet frames and arguments.
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
pytorchannotateframenetarguments
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