Murtuza Shergadwala
AI Research Scientist at Workday
California, United States
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Top SchoolMurtuza Shergadwala is a Senior Responsible AI Research Scientist with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and about four years of industry experience building explainable, fair, and privacy-aware ML systems across companies like Workday, Fiddler AI, and now Charles Schwab. He blends human-centered design and cognitive modeling with applied ML to make both predictive and generative models transparent and actionable for cross-functional stakeholders including legal, security, and product teams. His background in behavioral experiments and computational modeling informs pragmatic approaches to modeling human intent and decision-making in domains from digital games to enterprise AI. A published researcher and award winner, he translates academic rigor into production-ready solutions that prioritize ethics and interpretability. Based in California, he brings an unusual mix of teaching experience and hands-on data science that helps bridge technical, regulatory, and user-facing perspectives.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, waagdi (regional), French
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Github Skills (20)
scalable8
distributed-systems8
machine-learning8
gradient8
java8
xgboost8
portable8
dataflow7
gbm7
spark7
scala7
boosting7
python7
dask6
big-data6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mshergad/fiddlerchat
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 23 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
mshergad/streamlit_swin
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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