About Me

Resume

Education

May 2023 - April 2025

Master's in Information Technology Engineering

École de Technologie Supérieure, Montréal, Canada

Thesis: Privacy Preserving Complaint Resolution System, supervised by Prof. Ulrich Aivodji and co-supervised by Prof. Jean-Marc Robert.

Courses: Applied AI (COMP 6721, Concordia University), Cryptography & Data Security (COMP 547, McGill University), Ethics of Intelligent Systems (ECSE 557, McGill University).

Aug 2016 - Jul 2020

B.Tech. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, India

Founded the Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision club (AICVS) and organized workshops and seminars.

Electives: Information Theory, Communication Theory, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR).

Work Experience

Jan 2023 - Present
Toptal - Remote

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

NLP Specialist at UInclude, Inc. (2023 - Present): Developed biased word matching model and synonym enricher using SpaCy, GPT-3, and FastAPI on AWS.

ML Engineer for Denaro Capital Partners L.P. (2024 - Present): Developed automated trading platform using technical indicators and optimization algorithms.

Sept 2021 - Oct 2022
Hunters Security - Remote

Machine Learning Engineer

Built analytical tools for threat-hunting detectors and developed ETLs for data processing pipelines using Snowflake and AWS RDS.

July 2020 - Sept 2021
Verloop.io - Bangalore, India

Machine Learning Engineer

Improved intent recognition accuracy and developed a multi-lingual name recognition service. Refactored model deployment pipelines.

Research Experience

Sept 2024 - Present

Master's Researcher at Mila - Quebec AI Institute

Conducting research on deep learning, NLP, and privacy-preserving technologies under Prof. Ulrich Aivodji and Dr. Samira Ebrahimi Kahou.

June 2022 - Present
TISL Lab at ÉTS Montréal - Fully Remote

Affiliated Researcher

Research on model extraction attacks with counterfactual explanation APIs. Modelling adversaries for high-fidelity model extraction attacks.

Publications

🔗 Survey on AI Ethics: A Socio-technical Perspective

A comprehensive overview of current and future ethical concerns in AI, focusing on fairness, privacy, accountability, and transparency.

🔗 HinglishNLP: Fine-tuned Language Models for Hinglish Sentiment Detection

International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation 2020.

🔗 Long-range and Self-powered IoT Devices for Agriculture and Aquaponics

IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2019).

🔗 Design, Development and Deployment of Low-Cost Short-Range Self-Powered Wireless IoT Devices

IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES 2018).

Awards and Honors

ÉTS Tuition Fee Exemption (2024): Selected for exemption from additional tuition fees by Dean of Studies, ETS under under grants by Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, Quebec.

Kaggle AI Report 2023: Awarded Top Essay for "Exploring the landscape of AI Ethics."

UN PET Lab Hackathon 2022: Awarded Best All-Female Team for privacy-enhancing technologies.

Toptal Hackathon 2022: Awarded Second Prize for AI-assisted Cards Against Humanity game.

Programming Skills

Deep Learning Frameworks


PyTorch, Keras, fastAI

Natural Language Processing


SpaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face

Model Deployment & MLOps


Kubernetes, Docker, Flask, FastAPI

Data Engineering


SQL, Snowflake, AWS RDS

Research Skills

Privacy-Preserving Systems


Cryptographic protocols, PETs, Attribute-Based Credentials (ABCs).

Adversarial Machine Learning


Model extraction attacks, counterfactual explanations.

Natural Language Processing


Multilingual NLP, sentiment analysis.