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Muhammad Ali Valliani
(XXX) XXX-XXXX | XXXX@XXXX.XXX | Union City, CA 94587 | https://github.com/mavalliani/
Profile
Results-oriented Machine Learning professional with strong experience in Deep Learning. I have 3 years of experience, with
strong research skills and significant work in quantitative and language models.
Career Highlights
•
Data Science and Machine Learning tasks using Regression, Classifications, Trees, Support Vector Machines, Kernels.
•
Deep Learning. Convolutional Nets (CNN). Recurrent Nets (RNN). LSTM. Transfer Learning. Adversarial Nets (GAN). etc.
•
Sequence Models. (Natural Language Processing. Word Embeddings. Transformers. – attention based)
•
Unsupervised Learning. (Mixture Models. LDA. Clustering.)
•
Research (quick to understand/implement work from advanced publications, published scholarly blog posts)
•
Hyper-parameter tuning. Bagging. Boosting. Regularization.
•
Mathematical Optimization. (convex optimization. gradient descent. Newton’s Method.)
•
Algorithms. Extensive programming knowledge.
•
Experienced in working with GPUs, CUDA, AWS.
SKILLS
Core:
Statistical Analysis. (Time Series. Bayesian methods. Stochastic processes.); Data Science. (Machine
Learning. Deep Learning. Natural Language Processing.)
Tech stack:
Python. R. Spark. SQL.
Data Science toolkit:
ML (Scikitlearn.), DL. (Tensorflow. Keras. Pytorch), NLP. (NLTK. Gensim. Spacy. Embeddings.)
Methods:
Mathematical Optimization. Ensemble models. applied research.
EDUCATION
MS Statistics
California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA
08/2018 – 05/2020
(Data Science)
CGPA: 4.00/4.00
BS Engineering
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
08/2010-06/2014
WORK EXPERIENCE
Machine Learning Engineer
Marketchal Private Limited
06/2015 - 03/2018

Set up machine learning pipelines, Rest APIs and data architectures to processing million+ queries a day.

Predictive modeling of user behavior. Models used: Boosting, Bagging, Feature Engineering, and Clustering (unsupervised).

Optimized campaigns content and bidding using Time series, Quantitative and Sequence Models (NLP). Ensemble Methods.

Shell scripting on Linux including server deployment and automation scripts.

Tools and frameworks used are scikitlearn, Tensorflow, Pytorch, MySQL, PostgreSQL and deployment on AWS.
Machine Learning Fellow
Fellowship AI
12/2019 – Present

Crawled food images and modeled a Raw Food classifier for prototyping a smart oven. Tensorflow - CNN using Resnet50.

Detection of out-of-distribution data using a model-agnostic gateway module. Used Pytorch and FastAI.

Developed and deployed language and quantitative models on AWS and Amazon Sagemaker. Rest APIs.
Data Science Intern
Branch Metrics Inc (Redwood City, CA)
05/2019 – 8/2019

Worked on a multi-vertical, general purpose entity search using Elastic Search as entity data store. Indexing and Ranking.

Research and develop NLP/NLU component of entity extraction, semantic search and sentiment analysis with statistical
learning for mobile apps with high performance. Frameworks used: NLTK, SpaCy, Gensim.

Provide artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning and NLP solutions for knowledge graph.

Generate over 2 million labeled relations for location data using Common Crawl data Wikipedia data.

Developed and optimized scoring algorithms for queries to match with relevant verticals.

Statistical Language models for query understanding (NLP methods), Ranking functions (Extended Vector Space Models).
MAJOR PROJECTS
Machine Learning
●
Semantic Similarity of Sentences. Methods used: Cosine Similarity with Glove, Smooth Inverse Frequency, Word
Movers Difference, Sentence Embedding Models (Infersent and Google Sentence Encoder), ESIM with pre-trained
FastText embedding. Best performing method on Quora Question pair dataset was an Ensemble method with 0.27
log-loss. https://github.com/mavalliani/Semantic-Similarity-of-Sentences [October 2019]
●
Feature Engineering and Analysis of News data to Predict Stock Price Movements. Model: XGBoost optimized up
to an RMSE of 0.7. Link: https://github.com/mavalliani/News-data-for-stock-prediction [October 2018]
Research
●
Classification (kNN model) of human activity based on data from Inertial Measurement Units (with Dr. Bradford
Bennett – CSU East Bay). Prediction accuracy of 98% was achieved. Link:
: https://github.com/mavalliani/human-
activity-classification-research
●
Playing Poker deterministically. Algorithmically unwrapping scenarios where it is ‘risk-free’ to bet.
Link: https://github.com/mavalliani/deterministic_poker
Independent
●
I maintain a Video Book Publishing site: Jamnosh (https://jamnosh.com) for my love of reading.
●
Working on generating fiction stories (text data) using advanced NLP methods (Long term project).
Honors & Awards
●
STEM Scholar - Institute of STEM Education CSUEB (Distinguished Student in Statistics)
●
Awarded a grant of 20 million Chilean Pesos by CORFO Chile for TOKEN (Startup Chile Portfolio Company).
●
Dean Honor Student at GIK Institute.
●
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO 2009) – Pakistan camp participant.
●
Teaching Associate – Statistics (CSUEB): Taught Probability, Gaussian and related distributions, Statistical
tests and Regression to a class of 100+ students. Muhammad Ali Valliani
(XXX) XXX-XXXX | XXXX@XXXX.XXX | Union City, CA 94587 | https://github.com/mavalliani/
Profile
Results-oriented Machine Learning professional with strong experience in Deep Learning. I have 3 years of experience, with
strong research skills and significant work in quantitative and language models.
Career Highlights
•
Data Science and Machine Learning tasks using Regression, Classifications, Trees, Support Vector Machines, Kernels.
•
Deep Learning. Convolutional Nets (CNN). Recurrent Nets (RNN). LSTM. Transfer Learning. Adversarial Nets (GAN). etc.
•
Sequence Models. (Natural Language Processing. Word Embeddings. Transformers. – attention based)
•
Unsupervised Learning. (Mixture Models. LDA. Clustering.)
•
Research (quick to understand/implement work from advanced publications, published scholarly blog posts)
•
Hyper-parameter tuning. Bagging. Boosting. Regularization.
•
Mathematical Optimization. (convex optimization. gradient descent. Newton’s Method.)
•
Algorithms. Extensive programming knowledge.
•
Experienced in working with GPUs, CUDA, AWS.
SKILLS
Core:
Statistical Analysis. (Time Series. Bayesian methods. Stochastic processes.); Data Science. (Machine
Learning. Deep Learning. Natural Language Processing.)
Tech stack:
Python. R. Spark. SQL.
Data Science toolkit:
ML (Scikitlearn.), DL. (Tensorflow. Keras. Pytorch), NLP. (NLTK. Gensim. Spacy. Embeddings.)
Methods:
Mathematical Optimization. Ensemble models. applied research.
EDUCATION
MS Statistics
California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA
08/2018 – 05/2020
(Data Science)
CGPA: 4.00/4.00
BS Engineering
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
08/2010-06/2014
WORK EXPERIENCE
Machine Learning Engineer
Marketchal Private Limited
06/2015 - 03/2018

Set up machine learning pipelines, Rest APIs and data architectures to processing million+ queries a day.

Predictive modeling of user behavior. Models used: Boosting, Bagging, Feature Engineering, and Clustering (unsupervised).

Optimized campaigns content and bidding using Time series, Quantitative and Sequence Models (NLP). Ensemble Methods.

Shell scripting on Linux including server deployment and automation scripts.

Tools and frameworks used are scikitlearn, Tensorflow, Pytorch, MySQL, PostgreSQL and deployment on AWS.
Machine Learning Fellow
Fellowship AI
12/2019 – Present

Crawled food images and modeled a Raw Food classifier for prototyping a smart oven. Tensorflow - CNN using Resnet50.

Detection of out-of-distribution data using a model-agnostic gateway module. Used Pytorch and FastAI.

Developed and deployed language and quantitative models on AWS and Amazon Sagemaker. Rest APIs.
Data Science Intern
Branch Metrics Inc (Redwood City, CA)
05/2019 – 8/2019

Worked on a multi-vertical, general purpose entity search using Elastic Search as entity data store. Indexing and Ranking.

Research and develop NLP/NLU component of entity extraction, semantic search and sentiment analysis with statistical
learning for mobile apps with high performance. Frameworks used: NLTK, SpaCy, Gensim.

Provide artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning and NLP solutions for knowledge graph.

Generate over 2 million labeled relations for location data using Common Crawl data Wikipedia data.

Developed and optimized scoring algorithms for queries to match with relevant verticals.

Statistical Language models for query understanding (NLP methods), Ranking functions (Extended Vector Space Models).
MAJOR PROJECTS
Machine Learning
●
Semantic Similarity of Sentences. Methods used: Cosine Similarity with Glove, Smooth Inverse Frequency, Word
Movers Difference, Sentence Embedding Models (Infersent and Google Sentence Encoder), ESIM with pre-trained
FastText embedding. Best performing method on Quora Question pair dataset was an Ensemble method with 0.27
log-loss. https://github.com/mavalliani/Semantic-Similarity-of-Sentences [October 2019]
●
Feature Engineering and Analysis of News data to Predict Stock Price Movements. Model: XGBoost optimized up
to an RMSE of 0.7. Link: https://github.com/mavalliani/News-data-for-stock-prediction [October 2018]
Research
●
Classification (kNN model) of human activity based on data from Inertial Measurement Units (with Dr. Bradford
Bennett – CSU East Bay). Prediction accuracy of 98% was achieved. Link:
: https://github.com/mavalliani/human-
activity-classification-research
●
Playing Poker deterministically. Algorithmically unwrapping scenarios where it is ‘risk-free’ to bet.
Link: https://github.com/mavalliani/deterministic_poker
Independent
●
I maintain a Video Book Publishing site: Jamnosh (https://jamnosh.com) for my love of reading.
●
Working on generating fiction stories (text data) using advanced NLP methods (Long term project).
Honors & Awards
●
STEM Scholar - Institute of STEM Education CSUEB (Distinguished Student in Statistics)
●
Awarded a grant of 20 million Chilean Pesos by CORFO Chile for TOKEN (Startup Chile Portfolio Company).
●
Dean Honor Student at GIK Institute.
●
International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO 2009) – Pakistan camp participant.
●
Teaching Associate – Statistics (CSUEB): Taught Probability, Gaussian and related distributions, Statistical
tests and Regression to a class of 100+ students.