Russel Dsouza
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRussel Dsouza is a Research Fellow in Birmingham with eight years of applied ML and NLP experience focused on faithfulness and interpretability of reasoning, data- and compute-efficient training, and sample-efficient continual and token-efficient reasoning. He progressed from computer and medical imaging internships in India to postgraduate research and teaching roles at the University of Birmingham, blending hands-on experimentation with applied teaching. His work sits at the intersection of practical model efficiency and trustworthy reasoning, aiming to make large-model capabilities cheaper and more interpretable. An early frontend background informs his pragmatic approach to tooling and reproducible research, and he often bridges interdisciplinary teams across AI, data and domain specialists.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at University of BirminghamK-12, K-12 at Little Rock Indian SchoolBachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Konkani, Kannada, Hindi, English
Github Skills (39)
google-bigquery9
python6
blockchain5
ethereum5
data-mining5
solidity5
pytorch5
spellchecker4
denoising4
spelling4
smart-contracts4
tiled4
keras3
checker3
nlp3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rshwndsz/ponzi-detector
Aug 2019 - Jan 2022
Detecting ponzi schemes in smart contracts that run on the Ethereum blockchain
Contributions:27 commits, 11 PRs, 14 pushes in 2 years 5 months
pytorchpythonethereumdata-mininggoogle-bigquery
rshwndsz/cv
Aug 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:172 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years 3 months
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