About

Dhruv Naik is a highly motivated and skilled Master's student at Carnegie Mellon University, seeking a full-time role as an ML Engineer. With a specialization in Intelligent Information Systems, Dhruv has a strong background in Machine Learning, Data Analytics, and Visualization. In his previous role as a Machine Learning Engineer at Verloop.io, Dhruv built and maintained Intent Understanding and Named Entity Recognition Systems, which are used by companies like Nykaa and Decathlon to provide customer support to millions of users. He has also worked as an intern at McKinsey & Company, where he gained valuable experience in data analytics and visualization. Currently, Dhruv is interning at you.com, where he is building the future of search. He has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Machine Learning Department at CMU, where he taught Art and Machine Learning. Additionally, he has worked as a Graduate Research Assistant, representing CMU in the 2021 iteration of the Amazon Alexa Prize Competition. His team was selected as one of the Top 10 teams to participate in the competition, and they received funding of $250,000. Dhruv has a strong educational background, with a Bachelor's degree in Computer and Communication from Manipal Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in Intelligent Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a Higher Secondary Certificate from Navrachana International School. Dhruv is proficient in languages such as C++ and Python, and he has experience working with tools and libraries like Numpy, PyTorch, CUDA, and spaCy. He is passionate about research and has a keen interest in ML, Python, Kubernetes, Search, and Pytorch. With 2.19 years of relevant experience, Dhruv is a highly skilled and motivated professional seeking to leverage his skills and experience to make a meaningful contribution to an organization in the field of ML Engineering.