Het Shah
Research Engineer at Google DeepMind
India
Summary
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Top SchoolHet Shah is a research engineer with 8 years' experience blending machine learning research and applied engineering across Microsoft Research, Google, and now Google DeepMind. He has a strong academic foundation from BITS Pilani Goa and a track record of internships and fellowships (MSR, VCL, IISc) that fed into production-facing ML roles at Google and a stealth startup. His work spans knowledge distillation, semantic segmentation and remote-sensing datasets, and he has a history of building novel datasets and modeling pipelines from scratch. Curious about what makes humans humane, he combines rigorous research instincts with pragmatic engineering to move ideas toward deployable systems. Notably, he progressed rapidly from research intern to research fellow and engineering roles, reflecting an ability to translate research into impact in large-scale ML environments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (46)
pytorch10
benchmarking10
reinforcement-learning10
model-compression10
pruning10
quantization10
data-science9
accessibility9
python9
machine-learning9
incremental-learning9
deep-learning9
openai9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
neural-network8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SforAiDl/KD_Lib
May 2020 - Jun 2021
A Pytorch Knowledge Distillation library for benchmarking and extending works in the domains of Knowledge Distillation, Pruning, and Quantization.
Contributions:38 reviews, 156 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 1 month
pytorchbenchmarkingdistillationknowledge-distillationdata-science
Het-Shah/Texture-segmentation
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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