Darpan Jain
Lead Machine Learning Engineer with
over 7 years of experience spearheading initiatives in
Applied NLP & Large Language Models (LLMs).
Currently leading Personalization & AI initiatives at
Crunchyroll
(Sony Pictures Entertainment).
Work Experience
Consulting Projects
Publications
Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse?
H Cho, S Liu, T Shi, Darpan Jain, B Rizk, Y Huang, Z Lu, N Wen, J Gratch, E Ferrara, J May
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2024
Education
University of Southern California (USC)
Master of Science in Electrical & Computer Engineering
Specialization in Machine Learning & Data Science
GPA 3.92/4.0
Coursework Highlights
- Advanced Natural Lanuage Processing - A PhD course, helping develop expertise in reproduction of state-of-the-art NLP research and technical publication writing.
- Advanced Computer Vision - A PhD course providing an overview on the traditional and Deep Learning techniques for Computer Vision.
- Information Retrieval - Examines key aspects of information retrieval as they apply to search engines; web crawling, indexing, querying and quality of results are studied.
- Machine Learning for Medical Data -A course that gives great insight on using Graph Neural Networks and strategies to handle highly imbalanced data and skewed data distribution.
University of Pune, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Python, GoLang, JAX, SQL, Scala, Java, C, C++, Javascript
NLP & Machine Learning
PyTorch, Tensorflow, TensorRT, CUDA, NLTK, Langchain, LlamaIndex, SpaCy, HuggingFace Transformers, DeepSpeed, safetensors, FastAPI
Model Deployment & CI/CD
Model serving (Ray, TorchServe, TFServing), MLOps (MLFlow, WAND), CI/CD (Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow, Metaflow, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Jenkins)
Data Engineering and Monitoring
Vector Stores, Kafka, Apache Spark, PySpark, MongoDB, Redis, ElasticSearch, Hadoop, DynamoDB, Kafka, Kinesis, Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana
Frameworks & Technologies
Linux, Git, RESTful APIs, gRPC, Flask, Django, AWS, GCP, Airflow, ONNX, Databricks, Tableau
Endorsements
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Darpan is one of the best people to look for when you're looking to innovate. Along with his knowledge and experience in ML/AI field, he also has an inquisitive mind which helps him to learn more and more while motivating his team at the same time. He is strong-willed, soft-spoken, very good at people management and soft skills. He helped our team to kick-start the project with a positive force and I'm sure he'd do that in whichever project he works for in the future.
Saurabh Bhanage
Co-Founder & CEO @ Prasaurus Sports Analytics
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Darpan is a meticulous professional who holds immense knowledge in the field. He has a proactive approach to tasks, focusing on attaining maximum efficiency in the work he undertakes. Darpan’s affable personality along with his domain expertise allows him to lead projects in an organized and timely manner. He has been a great asset to our team and a pleasure to work with.
Lilesh Ghadi
Director of Engineering @ Warner Bros Discovery Chief Technical Officer @ AdSparx Inc
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Darpan has very good hands on experience of Machine Learning and Computer Vision. We worked together to build a Deep Leaning based Video Analysis tool and I can say Darpan did a wonderful job in designing and helping to implement the project.
Prashant Luhar
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