TEJAS SHAHPURI

DATA SCIENTIST

Profile

I'm a Data Scientist

About me

I am an all round Data Scientist with experience in data mining, predictive analytics, and data visualization with proven knowledge in machine learning, deep learning, and optimization.

I'm a Big Data enthusiast with an aspiration to make a substantial difference in businesses by analyzing and bridging the gap between business and data.

Tejas Shahpuri

Details

Name:
Tejas Shahpuri
University:
The Pennsylvania State University
Location:
University Park, PA

Experiences

“Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality.”
- Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything

Looking for an awesome new challenge somewhere in the neighborhood of California or United States as a Data Scientist.

Educations

The Pennsylvania State University

Aug 2015 - May 2019

Bachelor - Data Sciences (Specialization: Applied Data Sciences) My education was mainly in Machine Learning and Data Sciences. I learned about machine learning, databases, visualization, analytics and more. During my time in college, I specialized in Applied Data Sciences. University Park, PA

MVN Aravali Hills

Apr 2010 - May 2015

Highschool - (Math, Computer Sciences, Physics, Chemistry) I graduated highschool, where I enjoyed doing computer science, math, physics and chemistry. I realized in my third year of school that I wanted to do something with math and computer sciences, and so I started making machine learning models. Delhi, INDIA

Careers

INTCENTFCC

Mar 2017 - Present

Part Time - Data Scientist

  • Analysing company databases to predict potential customers for campaigns.
Seattle, WA | http://intcentfcc.com/

Pitney Bowes

Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

Intern - Data Scientist Worked on Product Classification in global e-commerce by using machine learning.

  • Preprocessed e-commerce commodity data-set and reduced number of features from 15000 to 300.
  • Collaborated with a team of 6 to implement machine learning models to predict labels of commodities using R.
  • Compared accuracy and confusion matrices for decision tree, random forest and SVM model.
  • Implemented ensemble approaches such as Random Forest to predict the commodity label with 87% accuracy.
Noida, India | https://www.pitneybowes.com/us

The Pennsylvania State University Research Institute

Jan 2017 - May 2017

Data Analytics Researcher

  • Collected Social Data from Penn State student's twitter accounts and surveys in a research team.
  • We used explanatory techniques to determine the relationship between student's college grades and time spent on social networking sites.
University Park, PA | http://www.psu.edu/

The Pennsylvania State University Police Department

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

Student Auxiliary Officer

  • Directed traffic during Penn State Events to ensure a smooth traffic flow while the event lasts.
  • Facilitated Police officers by maintaining peace and order on campus in specific places where needed be.
  • Patrolled campus to ensure security for students and checked buildings to ensure their locked.
  • Served as a team to prevail law and order for safety and betterment of the community on campus.
University Park, PA | http://www.psu.edu/

Abilities

“Life without knowledge is death in disguise.”
- Talib Kweli

Skills

  • Python
  • R
  • SQL
  • Java
  • JQuery
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • PHP
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • NoSQL Databases
  • Deep Learning
  • Statistics
  • Visualization
  • MapReduce
  • Hadoop

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Punjabi
  • French

Tools

  • Spyder
  • RStudio
  • Keras
  • Weka
  • MySQL
  • Tensorflow
  • Netbeans
  • PyTorch
  • Tableau
  • MongoDB
  • Neo4j
  • Visual Studio
  • Linux/Unix
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Minitab

Interests

“A man who limits his interests limits his life.”
- Vincent Price

algorithms

Algorithms/Mathematics

The use of Mathematical ideas requires more resources at the initial stages, the algorithm and logic design are fundamental in information technology. In the software development process, validation and verification are now extremely important. "Get the right system and get the system right."

reading

Reading

When I am trying to relax I enjoy reading, and have done this throughout my life; I find it helps develop my English and communications skills.

music

Music

I like many types of music. It keeps the brain healthy and it has the power to get better mood.

travel

Travel

Traveling increases my knowledge and widens my perspective. When travelling on my own I can learn many skills such as time management and decision making, it makes me more confident. And I like photography, it get a sense of satisfaction in creating something meaningful.

sports

Sports

I like running and doing some exercises in the gym and hiking outside in the weekend, regular exercise make me healthy.

Projects

“You can do anything you set your mind to.”
- Benjamin Franklin

CDiscount

CDiscount

Kaggle Contest: Cdiscount’s Image Classification $35,000 Challenge

Tags:
Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Kaggle

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Visual Analytics

Visual Analytics

Visual Analytics Science and Technology(VAST) Annual Challenge 2017

Tags:
Visual, Analytics, Python, Challenge

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Clickbait

Click Bait Challenge

Built a Binary Classification model using Machine Learning to discriminate click bait tweets.

Tags:
Machine Learning, Clickbait, Twitter

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MongoDB Java

MongoDB on Yelp

MongoDB backend based Java application to run queries on Yelp’s official dataset.

Tags:
MongoDB, Java, Yelp

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Contact

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. ”
- Henry Ford