Parag Dakle
Director, Data Science
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParag Dakle is a data science leader and NLP researcher with 11 years of engineering experience, currently serving as Director of Data Science at Fidelity Investments after progressing through senior technical roles there. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UT Dallas (dissertation on knowledge extraction from email conversations for question answering) and blends rigorous research with hands-on production ML and software engineering. His background spans end-to-end system design—from WebRTC and distributed backend systems to applied NLP—giving him a rare ability to operationalize research into scalable products. Parag has deep experience mentoring and teaching AI and NLP courses, reflecting strong communication and technical coaching skills. Outside work he’s an avid soccer fan, cook and traveler, signaling a curiosity-driven mindset that fuels both creative problem solving and team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 3.95 at The University of Texas at DallasHigh School, High School at Nowrosjee Wadia College of Science and Technology87, 87 at St. Paul's School, PuneSavitribai Phule Pune University
German, Marathi, Marwari, Hindi, English
Github Skills (27)
logger10
monolog9
log-parser9
php9
logging9
psr-38
databases8
query-language8
seed7
nlp7
sql6
question-answering6
natural-language-processing6
python6
corpus6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
paragdakle/us-election-search-engine
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:50 commits, 26 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 month
paragdakle/emailcoref
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
CEREC and Seed corpus for coreference resolution for email threads taken from the Enron Corpus
Contributions:35 commits, 6 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 3 months
corpusemailcoreference-resolutionresolutionseed
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