Summary
Namrata Thakur is a Senior Data Scientist with over six years of professional experience, currently advancing 3D computer vision research at A*STAR and applying her skills in industry at IBM. She specializes in semi-supervised and class-incremental learning for 3D semantic segmentation, having improved Dice and IOU scores by ~7.3% through careful label correction, augmentation design, and learning-rate strategies. Her work replicates and extends published research (ECTC 2023) and produced state-of-the-art results on semiconductor and medical 3D scans via extensive fine-tuning and distillation experiments. Previously she delivered large-scale recommendation and assortment systems for a Fortune 500 CPG client, driving significant uplift in sales adherence and recall using ANN and collaborative filtering pipelines on Azure Databricks. A current M.Tech candidate in Intelligent Systems at NUS with strong tooling in Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark and SQL, she blends rigorous research with production-grade engineering. Colleagues describe her as a meticulous experimenter who uncovers subtle data issues (like mislabeled 3D scans) that yield outsized performance gains.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 8.49 / 10.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 8.49 / 10.0 at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Executive Post Graduate Program, Machine Learning and AI, 3.68 / 4.0, Executive Post Graduate Program, Machine Learning and AI, 3.68 / 4.0 at International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore
South Point High School, Kolkata
Master's in Technology (M. Tech), Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence), Master's in Technology (M. Tech), Intelligent Systems (Artificial Intelligence) at National University of Singapore
English, Bengali, Hindi, Korean