Karan Wanchoo Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, USA, 2020-2022
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, India, 2011-2015
Publications
Awards and Honors
- Outstanding Research Award (May 2022)
- Accenture Wizards@Work Award (June 2020)
- Accenture SPOT Award (January 2020)
- Director’s Recognition Award (July 2019)
- Certificate of Excellence (COE) for contribution as Career Fair Manager (2015)
- Certificate of Appreciation (COA) for contribution to the IEEE student chapter (2013)
Work experience
- Fall 2021: Research Assistant (Ongoing)
- Location: GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Duties included: Empowering a robot to operate in unfamiliar environments by interpreting natural language navigation instruction
- Supervisor: Dr. Kostas Daniilidis, Ruth Yalom Stone Professor at Department of Computer and Information Science, and Dr. Eleni Miltsakaki, Senior Researcher, Department of Computer and Information Science.
- Summer 2021: Research Assistant (Ongoing)
- Location: David Rittenhouse Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Duties included: Create autonomous, unbiased and reliable deep learning algorithm that can detect Covid19 and other medical conditions such as Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Influenza, etc., by using human body odors.
- Supervisor: Dr. A.T Charlie Johnson, Rebecca W. Bushnell Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Penn School of Arts & Sciences, and Dr. Lyle Ungar, Professor in Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering and Psychology at the School of Arts & Sciences.
- Spring 2021: Research Assistant (Ongoing)
- Location: World Well-Being Project, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Duties included: Explore the potential for unobtrusive well-being measures to supplement, and in part replace, expensive survey methods using social media and natural language processing
- Supervisor: Dr. Lyle Ungar, Professor in Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering and Psychology at the School of Arts & Sciences, and Dr. Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Computer and Information Science.
- Spring 2021: Teaching Assistant
- Location: Detkin Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Duties included: Perform every experiment from the curriculim, record results as benchmarks for grading and guide students to execute the experiments smoothly in the lab.
- Supervisor: Dr. Marc Miskin
- 2017 - 2020: Data Scientist
- Location: Accenture, India
- Duties included:
- AI Powered Discovery Platform that assimilates unstructured and structured data from different sources to draw insights
- Designed a RESTful API that reads and interprets human textual query and extracts relevant entities (such as brand name, business metric, intent etc.)
- Data is then pulled from relevant websites (such as twitter, quid), journals and databases and visualized for the user
- Natural language processing for strategic spend optimization using random forest
- Engendered an AI tool in Python to intelligently classify a million ledger account descriptions into pre-defined categories
- Generated unsupervised LDA topic models from the cleaned and pre-processed account descriptions (documents)
- Clustering topic distributions to facilitate active learning for human annotations while training the model in cycles
- Product sales demand forecast to strategically plan inventories for a US retail giant for 3000 products across 1500 stores
- Leveraged deep neural network and gradient boosted tree models to generate 4.5 million product-store level sales forecasts
- 2015 - 2017: Data Scientist
- Location: Evalueserve, India
- Duties included:
- Designed transformation strategy for a leading power utilities firm to minimize transmission losses and deploy PV capacity
- Benchmarked transmission facilities to fetch high loss incurring sites
- Forecasted solar demand in the country to create a future load estimate for PV power plant prior to deployment
- Quantified the offline and online impact from conventional, digital and social media channels on enterprise sales by designing an actionable marketing mix across regions and products yielding respective Marketing RoI
- Subscriber base segmentation and customer profiling for an Asia-Pacific Telecom giant to identify most valuable customer segment
Skills
- Programming:
- RESTful API, Python (PyTorch, Keras, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Spacy, NLTK, Python stack dev.), SQL/Relational DBMS, Git
- Analytics & ML:
- Natural Language Processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Encoders, Transformers, Generative Adversarial Networks, Deep Neural Networks, Deep Convolution Networks, Gradient Boosted Trees, Random Forest, Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines, Unsupervised Clustering, Transfer Learning
- NLP and BI Tools:
- Google Dialogue Flow, Rasa, MS Excel
Research & Teaching
Service and leadership
- Career Fair Manager for Electrical Engineering Department, Punjab Engineering College (2014-2015)
- President of Les Amis (30-year-old, student managed, non-profit organization) from January – June 2015
- Successfully led and managed a 200 membered team to conduct a literary and art event for underprivileged children
