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Hi, I’m Shahzad Alam, a data science and AI enthusiast with around 5 years of experience delivering AI/ML solutions across computer vision, NLP, time series and OCR. I enjoy turning complex data problems into practical products and have deployed many projects on AWS and Azure, often bridging ML with web development.
I’ve collaborated in both startups and large corporations, thriving as both a team player and a solo contributor. I’m open to relocation within the UK and excited to contribute to innovative projects that make data-driven decisions easier and safer.
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Work Experience
Machine Learning Engineer at University of Exeter
September 1, 2024 - September 1, 2024Developed a Named Entity Recognition (NER) model using BERT and RoBERTa to detect PII in text; performed data analysis on vaccination sentiment from Twitter data using BERT/RoBERTa; conducted prompt engineering with Llama, Gemini, and Mistral for NER.
Machine Learning Engineer at Renishaw
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023Built a Question Answering system using RAG LLM to assist in operating industry-specific machines; created ViTPose keypoint detector, image segmentation and object detection frameworks for training and inference; performed inspection of EV stator sequences using YOLO; deployed solutions on Azure; versioned code with Git.
Data Scientist at Inspektlabs
August 1, 2022 - August 1, 2022Trained segmentation models on 600K images using MobileNet-Unet and 10K images with Vision Transformer (UperNet); implemented OCR to read digital/analog fuel gauges; combined Detectron2 Faster R-CNN and Unet for value computation; OCR on odometer and VIN from videos; car glass damage detection via ensemble methods; deployed modular code to Azure.
Data Scientist at Shyena Tech Yarns
February 1, 2020 - February 1, 2020Predicted future sales volumes across plants and brands using Holt-Winters, LSTM, SARIMA, and XGBoost; integrated results into a Django-based web app with Bokeh visualizations; CT scan segmentation of shoulder bones using Mask R-CNN; training and inference deployed on AWS GPU; supervised interns.
Education
MSc, Data Science with AI at University of Exeter
September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024Qualifications
Industry Experience
Healthcare, Manufacturing, Software & Internet, Financial Services, Education
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