About

Kashish Kumar is a Data Scientist with 4.86 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science. He is currently working at ExxonMobil in the Modelling Optimisation and Data Science team, where he is working on a computer vision project of detecting industrial equipment and classifying them based on their corrosion damage levels. Prior to this, he worked as a Data Scientist & Engineer at Vaya, a Fintech startup that provides credit to platform-based small businesses. Before that, he was a Senior Associate at upGrad in the space of online course creation related to AI and Data Science. Kashish holds a Master of Technology degree in Structural Engineering from IIT Madras and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Punjab Engineering College. During his master's, his research was on an interdisciplinary project applying machine learning to improve the structural optimization process, which led him to the field of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. His areas of interest include machine learning, structural engineering, sustainability, personal finance, and economics. Kashish is a curious polymath who believes that his strongest attributes are intuitive thinking, the ability to understand from different perspectives, and an independent self-drive to work on valuable and interesting things. He is an avid reader, content creator, and has a personal blog where he writes about personal development and shares other educational content. He also writes, teaches, mentors, and codes. Kashish has worked with various technologies such as Python, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit, Hadoop, Pytorch, SQL, Flask, and AWS. He has experience in areas such as Data Science, Research Science, AI, ML, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning, and Neural Networks. Kashish has also worked with companies such as idrive and Autodesk, where he gained expertise in facial recognition and clustering, and AI for Engineering, respectively.