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Darshan Patel is an experienced Lead Data Scientist with a strong background in the edtech industry. He is skilled in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, and Time-Series Data Modeling using deep learning and classical machine learning techniques. Darshan is also a Kaggle Competition Expert with a global rank of 1345. Darshan studied Big Data Analytics at Ganpat University in collaboration with IBM. He is currently working at Embibe as a Lead Data Scientist, where he is responsible for Knowledge Tracing, Open book Question Answering, Extreme Multi-class Classification, Language Modelling, and Distractor Generation. At Embibe, Darshan has built an End-to-End service to retrieve Contextually Similar Questions to solve student's doubts with an accuracy of ~94%. He has also developed algorithms for "Knowledge Tracing" to model student's knowledge over time and accurately predict how they will perform in future interactions. Darshan has utilized Knowledge Graph to handle Data Sparsity. Darshan has also developed an Open Book Question Answering module that retrieves relevant context for an asked question to answer it correctly. He has developed a module to tag concepts, topics, and chapters with meta-data such as importance, difficulty, and lengthiness using statistical features derived from Knowledge Graph Relations and various meta-data. Darshan has trained and fine-tuned State of Art Algorithms on Academic Corpora like Language models that can be used as a base for all teams that are working on NLP tasks. He has also built a model that generates incorrect options for given Fill in The blanks question to convert them into Multiple Choice Questions and 3 True/False Questions. Darshan has also streamlined work allocation using the context of the data in the company. He has helped reduce manual efforts by automating all the things that could be automated and regularly provides insights on the data catered for different stakeholders. Darshan has previously worked as an Intern at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering (Big Data Analytics) from Ganpat University. Darshan's tech stack includes Data Scientist, Research Scientist, NLP, Deep Learning, Python, Computer Vision, language models, ML, Big Data, ETL, NoSQL, Pytorch, Pandas, and Software Engineer. Darshan has relevant experience of 3.86 years.