Tooba Mukhtar
Senior Data Scientist
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolTooba Mukhtar is a Senior Data Scientist with 8 years of experience building practical, user-centered AI solutions across consulting and industry, currently at McKinsey/QuantumBlack in Dubai. She focuses on making AI genuinely useful—prioritizing clear, usable models and product-ready deployments over hype—and has shipped ML systems from forecasting revenue with LightGBM/CatBoost to real-time call-center optimizations. Her background spans deep learning research in computer vision, applied production ML at Afiniti, and teaching and curriculum development through Data Science Dojo and Pakistani Women in Computing, reflecting a strong mix of research, production, and mentorship. She’s particularly attentive to asking the right questions and avoiding vague jargon, and she often shares practical lessons learned to help others bridge research and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesHigh School Diploma, Computer Science, High School Diploma, Computer Science at Lahore Grammar School 1-A/1O levels, Mathematics and Computer Science, O levels, Mathematics and Computer Science at Beaconhouse school system
English, Urdu
Github Skills (8)
statistics6
python6
matplotlib6
pandas5
data-visualization4
visualization4
data-science4
data-analysis3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
toobamukhtar/Deep_Drive_Image_Segmentation
May 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
hamza121star/SurkhiMeter
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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