Sumana Basu
AI Consultant at Scale AI
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSumana Basu is a machine learning researcher with 9 years of experience, recently completing a PhD in Reinforcement Learning at Mila under Doina Precup and Adriana Romero-Soriano, and now applying her expertise to personalize financial products at RBC Borealis. Her doctoral work, supported by an IVADO scholarship, focused on reinforcement learning for personalized healthcare, bridging rigorous theory with high-impact applications. At Scale AI she evaluated and benchmarked large language models, developing rubric-based benchmarks, probing LLM-as-judge biases, and prototyping rubric-driven optimization to boost reasoning. She has industry research experience from Microsoft and Meta, including an RL project that accelerated MRI acquisition, demonstrating a track record of moving research into practical systems. Based in Vancouver, she combines deep RL knowledge with AI evaluation skills to design robust, responsible decision-making systems. An uncommon strength is her dual focus on individualized decision policies and the meta-evaluation of AI agents, enabling both better personalization and more reliable model assessment.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Reinforcement Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Reinforcement Learning at McGill University
Github Skills (14)
pytorch-lightning8
hydra8
simulator7
openai-gym7
simulation6
python5
diabetes5
genomics4
reinforcement-learning4
transfer-learning3
drug-discovery2
toolbox2
docking2
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:259 commits, 4 pushes in 3 years 10 months
sumanabasu/simglucose
Jan 2021 - Feb 2023
A Type-1 Diabetes simulator implemented in Python for Reinforcement Learning purpose
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
pythonreinforcement-learningsimulationdiabeteslearning-purpose
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.