Data Scientist New York, NY

I build models that turn messy data
into decisions people act on

A data scientist blending generative AI, machine learning, and experimentation to help teams make confident, evidence-based decisions.

abhitayshinde@gmail.com (646) 225-0802 LinkedIn GitHub Google Scholar

Experiencean idea of what my
day-to-day looks like

Feb 2026 – Aug 2026

Data Scientist Customer Acquisition

Ask2AI · New York, NY

Feature Engineering Causal Inference Polars
  • Corrected selection bias in the scoring model, by building a feature engineering and causal inference pipeline in Python and Polars that integrated 11 source systems into a unified 30 million customer dataset.
  • Scored the rejected-applicant population at 0.86 held-out AUC, by training gradient-boosted models within a Double Machine Learning framework to correct the selection bias in approved-only training data.
  • Expanded the approvable population by 15% at flat expected default, by handing corrected scores to credit policy.
Jul 2025 – Aug 2025

Data Science Intern Generative AI & Personalization

Julius Baer · New York, NY

Agentic LangGraph LLM-as-a-Judge RAG
  • Replaced the analyst-and-copywriter handoff for client-facing investment documents, by engineering an agentic LangGraph system retrieving client holdings, stated preferences, and live market news into a single generated draft.
  • Automated compliance review at 86% agreement with human reviewers, by building an LLM-as-a-judge critic that scored each draft against the firm's rubric and regenerated failures until they passed.
  • Cut content selection time for relationship managers by 35%, by shipping the pipeline as a chat interface with human-in-the-loop revision, letting RMs iterate on a living client document.
  • Surfaced a 25% engagement lift, using exploratory analysis on customer data in Python and SQL against matched controls.
Jan 2025 – May 2025

Data Scientist Co-op Customer Acquisition

Ask2AI · New York, NY

Uplift Modeling DiD Mixed-Integer Optimization
  • Improved cross-channel ROI attribution by 22% and identified optimal credit limit thresholds, by building uplift models and difference-in-differences designs that isolated incremental campaign impact from last-touch bias.
  • Lifted customer LTV 12% and cut churn 25%, by pairing uplift modeling with mixed-integer optimization to reallocate acquisition budget across channels.
Jan 2025 – May 2025

Data Scientist Capstone Customer Analytics & Segmentation

TD Bank · New York, NY

Customer Analytics Fraud Detection XGBoost
  • Raised fraud model precision-recall AUC from 0.20 to 0.67, by training XGBoost with SHAP on 100 million transactions.
  • Validated fraud-detection strategy for senior leadership, by quantifying incremental catch rate against a holdout.
  • Shaped segmentation and anti-money-laundering strategy, by clustering customers on transaction behavior and delivering automated reporting on the resulting risk tiers.
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025

Teaching Assistant Algorithms to Data Science

Columbia University · New York, NY

Student Mentorship Experiment Design
  • Mentored 250+ MS students on ML algorithms, analytical reasoning, experiment design, and inference through structured weekly sessions.
  • Designed case studies and assignments on A/B test design, modeling, and data-driven decision-making for applied data science coursework.

Earlier Experience & Internships

May 2023 – Nov 2023

Data Science Intern Operational Analytics

Navin Fluorine International Limited · Mumbai, IN

Predictive Maintenance Operational Analytics
  • Reduced equipment downtime by 35% and cut ingestion latency by 40% by architecting a predictive pipeline with XGBoost and Airflow.
  • Lifted recall 15% and shortened repair cycles by deploying anomaly detection using XGBoost and Isolation Forest to surface high-risk events.
Dec 2021 – May 2022

Founding IT Intern Acquisition & Retention Analytics

E-Revbay Pvt. Ltd. · Mumbai, IN

Acquisition Analytics Retention Analytics
  • Increased qualified customer leads by 50% per quarter by leading acquisition analytics pipelines using Equifax data, SQL, and Python.
  • Eliminated 25% of manager intervention time and accelerated response by building real-time dashboards and root-cause pipelines in Tableau.
Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

Artificial Intelligence Intern

Verzeo · Remote

Data Preprocessing Computer Vision CNN
  • Processed tabular diamond datasets for classification, improving model accuracy by 17% through data cleaning and feature engineering.
  • Built flower image recognition with CNN techniques, achieving 85% accuracy while reducing error rates by 15%.

Selected Projectsbuilt after hours, on curiosity and too much coffee

RAG Hybrid Search Reranking LLM-as-Judge
12 min read

Hybrid RAG Retrieval + Automated Evaluation Harness

A support bot that answers from product manuals, built to handle both exact error codes and vaguely-worded problems. A companion system turns its own chat logs into test cases that catch where its answers go wrong.

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Agents Tool Calling Human-in-the-Loop Pydantic
9 min read

Human-Gated Agent for Refund Automation

A customer-service AI agent that looks up orders and issues refunds on its own, but has to pause for human approval before it can actually move any money.

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LLMOps Semantic Cache Embeddings FAISS
9 min read

Semantic Caching for LLM Cost & Latency

A cache that recognizes when two questions mean the same thing and reuses the earlier answer, cutting cost and wait time, with a safeguard against serving an answer to the wrong question.

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LoRA Fine-Tuning Guardrails Text-to-SQL
13 min read

Fine-Tuned, Guarded Text-to-SQL Copilot

A tool that turns plain-English questions into database queries. It is small enough to run on a laptop, and a guard checks every query and blocks anything that could touch data it should not.

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Publications & Mediaa few papers I published, and the time I made the news

In the Press

Grand finale collage for Hackathon on Plastic-Free Rivers with AI at REVA University
Featured in ThePrint (ANI PR)

"Hackathon on Plastic-Free Rivers with AI" Grand Finale at REVA University

11 September 2023 · REVA University + Kyndryl

Team EcoGuards placed 1st out of 750 teams from 19 countries (1,311 participants), winning a INR 1,50,000 prize for a Vision AI system that detects, classifies, and segments river plastic from drone imagery.

Research Publications

Data-driven approach for predictive maintenance of metro system

Lead Author · Google Scholar

Demonstrated a sensor-driven pipeline that predicts equipment failures so operations teams can schedule targeted maintenance and reduce downtime.

Enhancing diabetes detection using machine learning: a focus on optimizing recall performance

Lead Author · Google Scholar

Prioritized recall in model design to reduce missed diagnoses, improving early detection reliability for clinical use.

Formulating SQL queries from natural language processing for students using mobile learning

Google Scholar

Built an NLP-to-SQL interface that lets non-technical students query data directly from mobile devices.

Simplifying Watermark Removal: Efficiently Enhancing Visual Integrity through Traditional Image Processing Techniques

Google Scholar

Removed watermarks from images using classical image-processing techniques, restoring visual integrity without the cost of a learned model.

Navigating Uncertainty: Advancing Disease Prediction with Semi-Supervised Learning

Google Scholar

Applied semi-supervised methods to leverage unlabeled clinical data and improve prediction robustness in ambiguous diagnostic cases.

Educationmy coursework and exams, condensed into a long paper trail

Columbia University

M.S. Data Science · New York, NY · GPA 3.7 / 4.0

Aug 2024 – Dec 2025

NMIMS University

B.Tech (Hons.) Data Science / Analytics · Mumbai, India · GPA 3.9 / 4.0

Jun 2020 – May 2024

Utpal Shanghvi Global School

IGCSE · Science · Mumbai, India · Grade A

Jul 2005 – May 2018

Certifications

University of Washington
Machine Learning: Foundations, Regression, Classification
IBM
Data Science: Python, Tools, Databases & SQL (Honors), Data Analysis, Visualization, Statistics
SAS
The Power of Machine Learning
Wesleyan · Edinburgh
Python Programming, Code Yourself: Intro to Programming
Arizona State
Business English: Finance & Economics, Management & Leadership
Deep Teaching Solutions
Learning How to Learn
NIIT · Internshala
OOP with C++, Ethical Hacking
Udemy
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Procreate, Japanese (Beginner)