About

Ashwin John Chempolil is a Software Dev Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with 2.27 years of relevant experience. He has a Master's degree in Data Analytics Engineering from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Technology in Production Engineering from TKM College of Engineering. Ashwin has also completed his Indian School Certificate from Kuriakose Elias School, Mannanam, and Indian Certificate of Secondary Education from Bishop Moore Vidyapith. Prior to joining Amazon, Ashwin worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Northeastern University, where he mentored a class of 49 students by conducting weekly office hours, tutoring sessions, and grading coursework. He also assisted the professor in timely assessment and provided relevant feedback to students to support continuous learning. Ashwin has also worked as a Data Scientist Intern at active.ai, where he analyzed four different Question-Answering models, including GPT-3, distilBERT, BERT, and T5, for an extractive summarization task on different aspects of a product on Amazon Product Review dataset. He trained an autoregressive model (distilGPT-2) for a language modeling task and reviewed various results for generating artificial datasets. Ashwin also fine-tuned distilBERT for NER tasks and achieved an F1 score of 99.57% on a financial dataset of more than 35,000 queries for classifying 25 different entities. He created an EDA tool to explore redundant data and implemented various data preprocessing methods, effectively reducing the size by 70% on a financial query dataset of 500,000 rows and 42 different labels. Ashwin's tech stack includes AWS, Data Scientist, Research Scientist, BERT, and GPT. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional with a strong background in software development, data analytics, and machine learning. With his expertise in these fields, he can effectively contribute to the growth and development of any organization he works for.