Pavneet Kochhar
Data Scientist II
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolPavneet Kochhar is a Data Scientist II at Microsoft in Vancouver with 11 years of experience applying machine learning and NLP to real-world product and networking problems. He leverages a strong research background—PhD work at Singapore Management University and a Carnegie Mellon residency, two Microsoft Research internships, and publications with 1,300+ citations—to translate large-scale GitHub and JIRA analyses into actionable insights for software engineering teams. At Microsoft he focuses on Azure Networking, building text-mining solutions that address customer pain points while also teaching data science as a lead instructor at BrainStation. His toolkit spans supervised and unsupervised learning, topic modeling, and user-research methods including interviews and surveys, reflecting a rare blend of quantitative rigor and human-centered design. Outside of work he’s an avid traveler, fitness enthusiast, inter-faith activist and Bhangra dancer, showing the same curiosity and community engagement that drive his technical collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Information Systems at Singapore Management UniversityPhD Overseas Residency Programme Information Systems, PhD Overseas Residency Programme Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communications at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha UniversityGithub contributions (5)
smusis/buglocalizationbiases
Jul 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 11 months
smusis/assert-usage
May 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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