About

Aditya Joshi, PhD is a data scientist at SEEK, the leading employment marketplace in the ANZ region. With over 6 years of professional experience in natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), Aditya's research in NLP has been published in several top-tier conferences and has over 1700 citations, with an h-index of 18 and i-10 index of 31 as of February 2022. Aditya holds a PhD jointly awarded by IIT Bombay, India and Monash University, Australia, in 2018, which received the best PhD thesis award. Prior to joining SEEK, Aditya worked as a postdoc at CSIRO Data61, where he worked on social media mining for epidemic intelligence. He has also worked as a software engineer at Sybase (now SAP) and a senior data scientist at Fractal Analytics. Aditya is a pedagogue and has presented tutorials and research talks at various ML/NLP conferences, global industry summits, and a TEDx talk on "detecting sarcasm, combating hate." He is also the lead trainer of a six-month data science program for professional learners in 2021. Aditya has taught coding to school students in India and Australia and has organized events for an LGBTQ support group in IIT Bombay, India. Aditya was granted the Distinguished Talent visa as part of the Global Talent program of the Australian Government in 2020. At SEEK, Aditya's work deals with recommender systems on SEEK's various platforms. SEEK is the Australian Financial Review's Best Place to Work in Australia in 2021. Aditya has also worked as a lead data science trainer at the Institute of Data, where he delivered lectures and administered lab sessions for a 24-week part-time program on "Data science and AI." He has also worked as a machine learning engineer at Notiv, where he developed novel intelligent features for the Notiv assistant and deployed them in the product. Aditya holds a PhD in Computer Science from IIT Bombay and Monash University, an MTech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, and a BE in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His tech stack includes data science, research science, NLP, ML, SQL, software engineering, AI, deep learning, Spark, Pandas, and computer vision. Aditya has 8.19 years of relevant experience.