About

Nitish Prakash is a Philomath, Inquisitive, and Preservationist, currently working as an Applied Scientist II at Microsoft. With over 5.7 years of relevant experience, he is a skilled Data Scientist who develops AI-powered products. Nitish has experience in each stage of the AI product development life cycle, including exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, training ML/DL models, validation and deployment, A/B testing, and statistical analysis of the improvement achieved by the deployed models. Nitish is passionate about researching and implementing state-of-the-art methods in ML/DL to make his products more accurate and capable. While Data Science is his niche, he has a good hands-on experience in developing Web Applications with MERN Stack and Android Application with Flutter and Dart. In addition to his professional work, Nitish is a teacher and avid reader. He teaches Physics and Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, to people and children outside of office hours. Nitish has worked with Amazon and Walmart in the past, where he developed Reinforcement Learning-based models along with the techniques of NLP and Computer Vision to curate the most clickable set of items for a particular query at Walmart. Nitish holds a Masters in Computer Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology. He completed his schooling from D.A.V. Public School, where he excelled in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Maths. Nitish's tech stack includes Research Scientist, Data Scientist, Deep Learning, Javascript, AI, ML, Computer Vision, NLP, MongoDB, Web, Software Engineer, Flutter, Search, Reinforcement Learning, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, and Android.