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Richa Khagwal

@richakhagwal

Machine Learning Engineer at Apple

New Delhi, India

https://github.com/rickhagwal

AppleCalifornia State University, East Bay

Richa Khagwal is a Data Science professional with 8 years of experience, including 4 years specializing in AI and Machine Learning. She has expertise in building generative QA systems, computer vision models, and predictive analytics. Her background includes software engineering roles at Bata India and Velocis Systems, complemented by an M.S. in Computer Science from California State University.

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer

Apple

•Jul 2023 - Present•New Delhi, India

Built and deployed generative question-answering system for customer support, using LLM model in NLP, via PEFT & LORA techniques on text and table data. (Python, PyTorch, Deep Learning). Built semantic similarity-based search functionality using sentence embeddings in NLP chatbot.

Machine Learning Engineer

Apple

•Mar 2021 - Jul 2023•California, USA

Built and deployed BERT based text classification model for support team. Built multivariate predictive analytics models for predicting purchase sales via- LSTM, Prophet models. Fine-tuned language models like- T5, BART models for language translation.

Data Science Engineer

NumeroData LLC

•Aug 2020 - Mar 2021•California, USA

Trained and deployed a computer vision based Indoor Navigation model for visually impaired people via- videos data frames collected manually, to perform object detection, with an F1 score of 98%. (Python, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Keras). Constructed dimension reduction techniques like- PCA, Factor Analysis to analyze the retention and graduation rate of students by department, ethnicity, and major, and reported via Tableau dashboard.

Data Science Intern

The Wine Group

•Jun 2019 - Aug 2019•California, USA

Built Univariate Time Series Forecasting models using ARIMA, ANN models for predicting monthly and weekly sales, and cross-verified results using statistical measures- RMSE, MAPE. Developed an AI conversational bot, powered with data analytics and forecasting for internal and B2B communications. (Python, NLP, Spacy, RASA chatbot)

Sr Software Engineer

Bata India Ltd.

•Feb 2017 - Jul 2018•Gurugram, India

Boosted retail sales up to 8%, by incorporating REST web services within BATA's POS system. Designed and developed a central core Master Data Management System, a web application based on Advanced Java J2EE, Spring MVC, Hibernate and performed CRUD operations on Oracle 11g database.

Software Engineer

Velocis Systems Pvt. Ltd.

•Sep 2014 - Feb 2017•New Delhi, India

Developed and designed reports and built various modules on a web application in an agile software development lifecycle. Written complex SQL queries, and stored procedures to fetch data from PostgreSQL db.

Education

California State University, East Bay

M.S.

Computer Science (Specialization: Artificial Intelligence)

Aug 2018 - May 2020•Grade: 3.56

Rajasthan Technical University

B.Tech

Computer Science and Engineering

Sep 2010 - Jun 2014

Skills

Python
Java
Javascript
R
C/C++
Pandas
NumPy
Scikit-learn
Scipy
Statsmodels
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Keras
Transformers
Huggingface
Spacy
Gensim
NLTK
Matplotlib
Plotly
Seaborn
Classification
Regression
Clustering
Ensemble models
Deep learning
Natural language Processing
Transfer Learning
Computer Vision
NoSQL
Mongodb
Cassandra
PostgreSQL
Mysql
Jupyter Notebook
PyCharm
PySpark
Flask
Django
Git
Kafka
Tableau
AWS EC2
S3
Hive