Nayyar Zaidi
Senior Lecturer at DataSmelly Pty Ltd
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolNayyar Zaidi is a Senior Lecturer and founder with nine years of professional experience bridging academic research and industry practice in data science and machine learning. Based in Melbourne, he leads teaching and research at Deakin University while running DataSmelly Pty Ltd, applying large-scale and distributed ML techniques to real-world problems such as campaign analysis, recommender systems, and online marketing. His PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Monash underpins a track record of scalable learning algorithm design, Big Models research, and hands-on work in deep learning from roles at Trusting Social and Monash. He is experienced in both generative and discriminative modeling, AB testing, and text analytics, and has designed production-oriented systems dating back to telecom OSS projects. Known for translating complex statistical methods into teachable curricula and deployable solutions, he combines academic rigor with entrepreneurial pragmatism. An interesting non-obvious detail: alongside academia he sustains product-focused R&D through his consultancy, keeping research insights rapidly actionable for industry clients.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, A+ (83% overall), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, A+ (83% overall) at University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Artificial Intelligence at Monash University
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (3)
logistic-regression3
machine-learning2
regression2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nayyarzaidi/fastLC
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
nayyarzaidi/fastLR
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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