Hey!

Congrats on choosing data science and machine learning. Regardless of your path, it will be long, fun, and very rewarding!

My educational background is in Medicine, Mathematics, and Electrical Engineering. Professionally, I am the Chief Scientific Officer of Vertex Labs, a machine learning research and consulting group. I more or less lead the research team as well as give internal lectures and host a weekly machine learning book club (my favorite part of the week).

I've done (and currently still do) projects in Finance, Pharma, Biotech, Medicine, and ...

Founder of the Data Science & AI Lab Meetup in Bogotá, Colombia, with over 1200 members and Co-Founder of Panda Lab offering Data Science and ML services. I have worked on multiple AI projects related mostly to NLP and Computer vision designing deep networks to solve tough business problems for insurance, retail and construction companies.

I can also offer mentoring in Spanish if needed :)

Shaksham has over 1.5+ years of experience in data science. He is an experienced ML and NLP practitioner. Currently, he is working as a Project Engineer at PSL where he is developing NLP/ML-based products. Prior to joining PSL, he was doing extensive research in data science where most of his work was focused on using machine learning algorithms or deep learning models to enhance the performance of existing models or to propose efficient models. His current research is focused on question answering approach, class imbalance problems, and knowledge-based graph search. ...