Ramit Sawhney

Ramit Sawhney

New York, New York, United States
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About

I'm the Global Head of Core AI & Machine Learning at Tower Research Capital. I was…

Experience

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    Tower Research Capital

    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    Atlanta, Georgia

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    New Delhi Area, India

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    Dallas, Texas

Education

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    Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology

    Department Rank 1

    - Worked on Evolutionary Computing and Feature Selection problems.

    - Mentoring final year students with the major projects on novel research problems in the domain of evolutionary computation and sentence level classification models on social networks.

Volunteer Experience

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    GSoC’20 Mentor

    Google

    - 7 months

  • Maintainer, GHC scholarship committee

    Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

    - 3 years 3 months

    Maintainer for Systers Sysbot and Mentorship system projects.

    Member of the Grace Hopper scholarship review committee.

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    GSoC’19 Mentor

    Google

    - 4 months

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    GSoC’18 Mentor

    Google

    - 6 months

    Google Summer of Code 2018 at Systers, Anita Borg Institute of Technology.

    - Mentored the Sysbot project, currently hosted on AWS, a bot for improving developer and newcomer productivity by simplifying operations between Slack and Github.

    - Streamlined the Open Source workflow by leveraging a combination of rule-based approaches and sentence classification using NLP and AI.

    - Currently, a maintainer for the project and I'm involved in bug fixes, helping out newcomers…

    Google Summer of Code 2018 at Systers, Anita Borg Institute of Technology.

    - Mentored the Sysbot project, currently hosted on AWS, a bot for improving developer and newcomer productivity by simplifying operations between Slack and Github.

    - Streamlined the Open Source workflow by leveraging a combination of rule-based approaches and sentence classification using NLP and AI.

    - Currently, a maintainer for the project and I'm involved in bug fixes, helping out newcomers, making the UX more seamless by leveraging NLP.

    - Recognized as an exceptional mentor and awarded a stipend for the same.

    Technologies used: Python, AWS, Github API, Slack API, LUIS API, Flask, nltk, CI/CD: Travis CI

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    GCI’18 Mentor

    Google

    - 3 months

    Google Code-In Mentor 2018 at SCoRe Lab.

    - Creating and evaluating tasks for the fastest growing organization in GCI'18 (530+ tasks completed in 5 days).

    - Helping school students (age 13-17) get introduced to Open Source workflows, git, best practices, and the aspects of OS communities.

    - Managing tasks (over 10/day) for Bassa (Automated download queue for communities to take the best use of Internet bandwidth) and Elphas (Facilitating the census of elephants in Sri Lanka…

    Google Code-In Mentor 2018 at SCoRe Lab.

    - Creating and evaluating tasks for the fastest growing organization in GCI'18 (530+ tasks completed in 5 days).

    - Helping school students (age 13-17) get introduced to Open Source workflows, git, best practices, and the aspects of OS communities.

    - Managing tasks (over 10/day) for Bassa (Automated download queue for communities to take the best use of Internet bandwidth) and Elphas (Facilitating the census of elephants in Sri Lanka by leveraging Neural Networks)

Publications

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Paper Award - COLING 2020

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    GPolS - Long paper won an outstanding paper out of 3,000+ submissions at COLING 2020.

  • Department Rank 1 NSIT

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    Department Rank 1 (out of 200)
    Computer Engineering

  • Merit Scholarship, NSIT

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    Department Rank 1
    Merit Scholarship, Academic Excellence

  • Merit Scholarship, NSIT

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    Department Rank 1
    Merit Scholarship, Academic Excellence

Test Scores

  • AISSCE CBSE XII

    Score: 96.6

  • Bachelor of Engineering

    Score: 9.5/10

    Department Rank 1

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