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Aman Arora

Summary

A seasoned leader in data science with a proven track record of spearheading high-impact projects in diverse industries. Recognized for my expertise, I have contributed to open-source projects such as fastai and timm with over 10K starts on GitHub. My technical blog and research paper reviews have been read by over 200,000 users across 131 countries demonstrating my ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Data Science Lead

REA Group
05.2022 - Current
  • Spearheaded the creation of Australian AVM at REA-Group, an advanced property valuation tool used to value 12.2 million properties across Australia.
  • Instrumental in facilitating the migration of major banks (such as Westpac, NAB, ANZ) from legacy AVM to a a more advanced and accurate version, thereby enhancing their property valuation process.
  • Fostered team growth and cultivated a culture of innovation and excellence by conducting fortnightly meetings with direct reports, initiating monthly knowledge sharing sessions and offering consistent support to team members.
  • Pioneered the development of an AI-powered economic chatbot to help consumers in their property buying journey.
  • Leading the GenAI initiative at REA, driving projects like attribute extraction from texts, finding comparable properties using images & generating draft responses for support queries.
  • Presented at multiple industry conferences, sharing insights on generative AI technologies including REA Unstack'd, Data & Analytics in Real Estate Summit, Melbourne Business Analytics Conference.
  • Actively involved in the support efforts to answer real estate queries regarding the explanation of end users' house prices on https://www.realestate.com.au.

Machine Learning Engineer

Weights & Biases
03.2021 - 05.2022
  • Led the activation team within the larger growth team at the company to increase the activated user base from 2% to 10% within a period of 12 months. A user was defined "active" if the user interacts with the website once a week and was using the W&B product for experiment tracking.
  • Translated company quarterly goals into actionable weekly tasks and showcased results to key stakeholders.
  • Established a user community from scratch, initiating multiple events to ensure user engagement.
  • Authored technical articles on the latest research methods including Generative AI, highlighting diverse use cases for the W&B product.
  • Coordinated partnership webinars with industry leaders like Nvidia, Pfizer, promoting the integration of the W&B product into corporate workflows.

Applied AI Scientist

Harrison AI
11.2020 - 03.2021
  • Worked towards the development of Chest X-ray Vision Classification and Localization systems, providing multi-label radiological findings for 137 findings using Dicoms.

Data Scientist

Corelogic Australia
03.2019 - 11.2020
  • Led the development of Australian Rental AVM, an advanced rental property valuation tool used to estimate rental prices of 12.2 million properties across all of Australia.
  • Built the Listings Autocomplete tool from scratch, using GPT-2 to predict the next words of a real estate listing.
  • Improved data quality metric from 60% to 78% through the development of the Attributes Imputation model.

Data Science Instructor

General Assembly
03.2018 - 01.2020
  • Instructor for Data Science Part Time Course.
  • Built on top of existing material and taught courses introducing the ideas and principles of data science with tools including Python, AWS, Excel and SQL.

Data Analyst

Event Hub
02.2017 - 02.2019
  • Owned the responsibility for data analysis, database management, and data visualization at Event Hub.
  • Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
  • Improved decision-making processes with accurate data analysis and visualization techniques by building customer centric reports using Periscope.

Education

Master of Information Technology - Business Analysis

Charles Sturt University
08.2018

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology
New Delhi
08.2016

Skills

  • Proficiency in core data libraries: pytorch, fastai, langchain, numpy, pandas, sklearn
  • Strong leadership skills: Proven ability to lead projects and teams, delivering results within strict deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills: Demonstrated ability to break down complex concepts and present them to diverse audiences
  • Stakeholder management: Ability to understand and cater to the needs of various stakeholders, building efficient prediction systems to meet their requirements
  • AI Engineering: Skilled in deployment, testing, CLI, logging tools to provide infrastructure and support for data- related products

Accomplishments

  • Keynote speaker at AWS Startup Day in August 2023 on Large Language Models.
  • Authored and maintain ‘timmdocs’, a comprehensive documentation resource for the 'timm' library. (https://timm.fast.ai)
  • Kaggle competitions expert (https://www.kaggle.com/aroraaman)
  • Interviewed by Radek Osmulski on my data science journey (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nMckFzGcd8)
  • Led the fastbook reading group teaching deep learning to participants from across the world (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD80i8An1OEHdlrBwa7mKFaHX9tH86b93)
  • Led the paper reading group sharing key research topics to the community across the world often having research paper authors as part of the reading group. (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD80i8An1OEG_vpqwQgwH1gIxeb9r30u5)

Timeline

Data Science Lead

REA Group
05.2022 - Current

Machine Learning Engineer

Weights & Biases
03.2021 - 05.2022

Applied AI Scientist

Harrison AI
11.2020 - 03.2021

Data Scientist

Corelogic Australia
03.2019 - 11.2020

Data Science Instructor

General Assembly
03.2018 - 01.2020

Data Analyst

Event Hub
02.2017 - 02.2019

Master of Information Technology - Business Analysis

Charles Sturt University

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology

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