Ieshan Vaidya
Senior Data Scientist
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIeshan Vaidya is a Staff Data Scientist with a decade of experience building ML-driven solutions at Walmart, focused on anti-fraud and in-club member experience as well as personalization, recommendation, and ranking systems. He combines an MS in Data Science from NYU and a BS-MS in Physics from IISER Pune, bringing strong quantitative foundations and practical production engineering experience dating back to software engineering roles. His background includes applied research in reinforcement learning for options hedging and work on cross-lingual word embeddings for Wikimedia, highlighting a knack for tackling cross-disciplinary problems. Based in Dallas, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on deployment of models at scale, and maintains an active GitHub presence reflecting ongoing curiosity in data science tooling and experiments.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at New York UniversityBS-MS Dual Degree Physics, BS-MS Dual Degree Physics at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune
Github Skills (11)
exams5
jupyter-notebook5
science4
python3
machine-learning3
pandas3
data-science3
unsupervised-learning2
deep-learning2
computer-vision2
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ieshanvaidya/Interactive-Choropleth
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year
ieshanvaidya/reinforcement-learning-option-pricing
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 1 push in 4 months
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