Zairah Mustahsan
Staff Data Scientist
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZairah Mustahsan is a Staff Data Scientist with a decade of experience building and leading data-driven products, currently heading Data and Analytics at You.com in New York. She progressed through hands-on roles from research and academic labs to enterprise AI at IBM and now shapes search and recommendation systems at a fast-moving startup. Her background blends applied machine learning, production engineering and signal-processing work—ranging from indoor navigation and image parsing with OpenCV to large-scale classifier benchmarking at Penn. Zairah holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and started her career building sensor networks and embedded interfaces at IIT Delhi, giving her an uncommon hardware-to-ML perspective. She maintains a technical blog and personal site, signaling an appetite for explaining complex ideas and exploring non-obvious patterns in data. Colleagues describe her as tenacious with ambiguity, turning vague requirements into validated, measurable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Presentation Convent High SchoolStudent Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Student Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology,Mesra,RanchiKalka Public School, New DelhiMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
Hindi, Kashmiri, Urdu, English
Github Skills (46)
dialog10
ibm-watson10
discrimination10
watson-assistant10
r9
google-assistant9
taiga9
bias-detection9
watson8
python8
fairness-ml8
machine-learning8
scraper8
datasets8
artificial-intelligence8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zairahms/sklearn-benchmarks
Mar 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
report-topythondata-setsdata-sciencereport
numfocus/algorithm-ethics
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
A collection of resources and tools designed to provide guidelines for ethical modeling.
Contributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
guidelinesethical-data-scienceethical-artificial-intelligencemodelingethical-hacking
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