Darpan Jain

Lead Machine Learning Engineer with 9+ years of experience building products in Applied NLP and Large Language Models (LLMs).

Currently driving Personalization & AI Enablement at Crunchyroll (Sony Pictures Entertainment).

Explore My Work

Work Experience

Consulting Projects

Research

Can Language Model Moderators Improve the Health of Online Discourse?

We developed a framework to evaluate language models as conversation moderators. They can give fair, specific feedback on toxic behavior, but still struggle to make discussions more respectful and cooperative.

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 Language Processing: PhD-level coursework focused on reproducing NLP research and writing technical publications.
  • Advanced Computer Vision: PhD-level study of classical computer vision methods and deep learning approaches.
  • Information Retrieval: Search engine fundamentals, including web crawling, indexing, query processing, and retrieval evaluation.
  • Machine Learning for Medical Data: Graph neural networks and methods for learning from imbalanced medical datasets.

University of Pune, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering

Labs

Tools, technical explorations, and interactive experiences built to solve practical problems and investigate ideas.

Distributed Training

An interactive visualization of how gradients and parameters move through distributed training. Distributed MLVisualization

Model Optimization

Benchmarks and optimizes deep learning models with TensorRT for NVIDIA GPUs. TensorRTPyTorch

Crowd Counting

Estimates crowd density and flow in surveillance footage using CNNs. CNNTransfer learning

Focus Mode

A minimal focus surface to commit to one task at a time without distractions. Deep workDistraction blocker

Marvel Universe

An interactive way to explore characters and connections across the Marvel universe. Data explorationInteractive

Anti-Anxiety Easter Egg

A breathing-and-soothing micro-site to reset when things feel noisy. Take a breatherBreathing exercise

Technical Skills

Endorsements

Saurabh Bhanage

Co-Founder & CEO @ Prasaurus Sports Analytics

He is strong-willed, soft-spoken, very good at people management and soft skills.
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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.

Lilesh Ghadi

Director of Engineering @ Warner Bros Discovery
Chief Technical Officer @ AdSparx Inc

He has been a great asset to our team and a pleasure to work with.
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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.

Prashant Luhar

Software Engineer II @ Frontdoor Inc.

Darpan has very good hands on experience of Machine Learning and Computer Vision.
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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.

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Have a role or project you think I’d enjoy? Or just want to chat? I’d love to hear from you.

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Email darpannjainn@gmail.com
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