About

Aravind Ram Nathan is a data scientist with over 6 years of experience in the field. He is a Kaggle expert and a Google Cloud Certified Professional Data Engineer. His primary interests lie in machine learning, deep learning, big data analytics, data science, natural language processing, and data visualization. Aravind is proficient in Python programming and has experience working with databases such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL Plus, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. He is also well-versed in Apache frameworks like Hadoop, Hive, Spark, HBase, Pig, Nutch, Tika, Solr, and Cassandra. Aravind has a strong background in data visualization tools such as D3.js, QlikSense, Tableau, and Matplotlib. Currently working as a Data Scientist at Scry Analytics, Aravind analyzes large, multi-dimensional datasets using Map Reduce and PySpark. He applies NLP-based feature engineering techniques like sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, dependency parsing, and coreference resolution in Python. Aravind designs and implements various machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks, Cluster Analysis, Random Forests, Bayesian Analysis, and Deep Learning for building several crucial modules in products like Collatio® and Anomalia®. He also develops proprietary algorithms in Python to find similarities in structured and unstructured data. Aravind has experience building recommendation engines using reinforcement learning to detect and flag anomalous activities on international wire transfers. He has also built machine-learning models to extract components like country and state from addresses using algorithms like Random Forests and Multinomial Naive Bayes to further improve the accuracy of the anomaly detection model on international wires. Aravind has also worked on digitizing machine-readable and non-machine-readable documents using image processing techniques. Aravind has completed his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and his Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering. He has also completed his High School from DAV Senior Secondary School, Mogappair, Chennai. Aravind has experience working as a Data Science and Engineering Intern at Scry Analytics and as an intern at Cognizant. Overall, Aravind is a well-rounded data scientist with a strong technical background and experience in various domains.