Jivesh Poddar

Experience

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  ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization

  Jun 2018 - Jul 2018

  Machine Learning Intern

  ->Studied many Regression and Classification Models used in Remote Sensing and Image Processing. ->Studied the Architecture of Satellite Images. ->Analysed and Developed a Machine Learning Algorithm which can distinguish between Earth Surface,Water bodies and Atmosphere in Satellite Images.

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  WHIZKID COMPUTERS PVT LTD

  Jun 2019 - Jul 2019

  Web Developer and Data Scientist

  ->Developed a new Website for the company using WordPress.-> Developed an Artificial Interacting tool i.e. Chatbot for better Assistance with Clients .->Built a Biometric Fingerprint Sensor with Online Facial Recognition System for better Authentication and Authorization.

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  ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization

  Jan 2020 - May 2020

  Data Science Research Intern

  Developed an Automatic Hyperparameter search for Dense Satellite Image Forecasting using LSTM and Conv-LSTM based architecture with Bayesian Optimization Hyper Band Tuning using TensorFlow and GANs. Suggested A/B testing approaches.

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  WHIZKID COMPUTERS PVT LTD

  Jun 2020 - Jul 2021

  Machine Learning Operations Engineer

  Worked on developing an extensively customizable click-and-go tool for training ML models for all types of datasets equipped with an adequate set of hyperparameters and model choices without having to code.

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  Northeastern University

  Sept 2021 - May 2022

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Subject: Large Scale Parallel Data Processing (CS6240) under professor Divya Chaudhary (Divya Dabas)

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  Walmart

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Data Science Intern

  Developed an extensive offline synonyms list leveraging advanced NLP techniques such as Word2Vec, FastText, ELMo, BERT, and Topic Modeling to enhance search accuracy and recommendation quality, resulting in an improved e-commerce customer experience. Leveraged Annoy and FAISS algorithm for efficient similarity search and nearest neighbor retrieval.

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  Northeastern University

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Subject: DS5220 Supervised Machine Learning and Deep Learning under professor Hongyang R. Zhang

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  Walmart Global Tech

  Jun 2023 - now

  Enhancing user experience and search rankings for Walmart Mexico and Canada. Spearheaded development platform innovation by implementing MLOps on Cloud principles within existing production pipelines. Onboarded MX grocery website onto the unified search ranking platform and developed a Re-ranker model. Contributed to multiple projects for Walmart Commerce Platform (WCP) unification and established a comprehensive process for model monitoring and deployment on model serving platforms. Built several models, including XGBoost and Neural Network Ranker to improve Search Relevance Ranking in international markets. Designed, maintained, and optimized end-to-end data generation, model training, and model evaluation pipelines, enabling model quality checks, automatic model deployment, and model versioning for various search ranking model variants. Compared the models against relevance and engagement based NDCG along with query level rankings Show less

  • Senior Data Scientist

    Mar 2025 - now

  • Data Scientist III

    Jun 2023 - Mar 2025