About

Virik Jain is a highly skilled Software Engineer currently working at D. E. Shaw in India as a Member Technical (SDE) in the Convertible Arbitrage Strategies and Credit Opportunities team. With a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, Virik has gained a solid foundation in software engineering, Python, and ReactJS. Virik's current role at D. E. Shaw involves building full-stack applications for traders using ReactJS and Python. He has also worked as an SDE intern at Samsung R&D Bangalore, where he collaborated with the SRI-B NLU (Natural Language Understanding) group of Voice Intelligence R&D Team on Phonetic Transliteration of Named Entities from English to Korean. He has also built Deep Neural Networks (Transformer and Seq2Seq) and Decision Tree models for the same, achieving a competitive Character Level Accuracy of ~80%. As a Research Intern at IIIT-Allahabad, Virik worked in the Data Analytics Lab under the Center for Cognitive Computing. He implemented an improved version of the ID3 Decision Tree Classifier algorithm in Python that led to a 37.15% average reduction in Training Time and 74.9% average reduction in Tree Depth. He also built ML models on Chronic Kidney Disease Prediction on Imbalanced Data using SMOTE, Multilayer Perceptron, SVM, and Random Forest using both Python and WEKA. Virik's technical skills include Python, ReactJS, NLU, Neural Networks, Mobile, ML, SVM, Random Forest, and Perceptron. He has relevant experience of 2.20 years in the field of software engineering and research. With his strong educational background and diverse experience, Virik is a valuable asset to any team.