Samantha Mahendran
Senior Data Scientist
Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolSamantha Mahendran is a Senior Data Scientist at Lowe’s with eight years of industry experience, specializing in NLP, machine learning, and AI-driven customer experience improvements. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (NLP) from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she published multiple peer-reviewed papers that informed her transition from academic research to production ML. At Lowe’s she has progressed from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist, applying advanced language models and practical engineering to increase operational efficiency. Her background as a QA and software engineer gives her a strong foundation in test-driven development and robust model deployment. Curious and self-motivated, she blends rigorous research instincts with hands-on engineering to solve real-world language understanding problems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of PeradeniyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural language processing Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural language processing Computer science at Virginia Commonwealth University - College of EngineeringHigh School Biology General, High School Biology General at Ramanathan Hindu Ladies College, Colombo -04
English, Sinhala, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (10)
text-mining10
mining10
extraction10
information-extraction9
medical9
spacy8
nlp8
machine-learning8
natural-language-processing8
python7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
NLPatVCU/RelEx
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 107 commits, 101 pushes in 2 years 7 months
SamMahen/starter-academic_netlify
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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