Meghana Bhange
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal member since October 27, 2022
Meghana is a machine learning engineer with a passion for solving problems in a data-driven manner. She is currently pursuing her Master's Degree with a research focus on privacy-preserving technologies at the Trustworthy Information Systems Lab, ÉTS Montréal. She has experience in natural language processing and has previously published work at SemEval-2020. Meghana is passionate about working on creative projects and always looks for new ways to apply her skills.
Portfolio
Experience
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) - 4 years
- Machine Learning - 2 years
- Python - 2 years
- Kubernetes - 2 years
- Django - 1 year
- Data Engineering - 1 year
- SQL - 1 year
- Amazon SageMaker - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI Design
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is developing an end-to-end custom recognition service on resource-constrained code-mixed settings with low latency requirements.
Work Experience
AI Engineer
UInclude, Inc
- Developed a context-specific biased word matching model utilizing SpaCy and a Rule-based engine to identify biased words in job listings.
- Created a synonym enricher employing sentence transformer and GPT-3 to discover context-specific synonyms, replacing biased words in job listings with unbiased alternatives.
- Deployed the models using a FastAPI endpoint on AWS while storing and querying the data through DynamoDB.
Researcher
TISL Lab at ETS Montreal
- Researched privacy-preserving ML and data publishing for a complaint redressal system.
- Researched model extraction attacks on machine learning systems with counterfactual explanation APIs.
- Modeled an adversary that can leverage the information provided by counterfactual explanations to build high-fidelity and high-accuracy model extraction attacks.
- Benchmarked the model performance on the Folktables dataset, with the extracted model gaining fidelity of around 97.6%.
AI Developer
Freelance Client
- Developed a FastAPl endpoint for a GPT-4 based chat interface tailored for parents and students. Successfully deployed the application on DigitalOcean, ensuring robust performance and scalability.
- Enhanced the chat endpoints by integrating it with LangChain, incorporating plugins like Wikipedia, Search, and Math. This integration improved the reliability of information.
- Utilized a vector database to query documents for reliability of information retrieval. Developed endpoints capable of analyzing chat history to extract relevant topics and concepts.
OpenAI Developer
Zurney.app
- Built a FastAPI back end with GPT-3 API integration to generate a travel itinerary for a trip and extract locations. These locations were then geo-encoded with co-ordinates.
- Built a Next.js app to display the travel itinerary and show the geo-locations on Google Maps color-codes corresponding to days in the trip and information about each location.
- Dockerized and deployed both the FastAPI back end and Next.js front end to DigitalOcean.
Machine Learning Engineer
Hunters.ai
- Researched and built analytical tools for evaluating threat-hunting detectors and understanding abnormal patterns in detection outputs.
- Organized the monitoring and quality check infrastructure in machine learning detectors.
- Created a framework for deep investigation of threats.
Machine Learning Engineer
The Verloop.io
- Contributed to the intent recognition service using a sentence transformer to improve the top-K recall and accuracy, which improved F1 by 40% absolute.
- Designed, built, and deployed a multi-lingual name recognition service across all clients.
- Evaluated the performance of various language models like ULMFiT and VAMPIRE for low-resource language contexts.
- Created synthetic training data for FAQ systems in a chatbot using Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT3) AI.
Machine Learning Intern
The Verloop.io
- Created a person-name extractor customized for multilingual conversations. Tweaked Flair, Facebook's natural language processing library, to work on low-latency use cases in English, Spanish, and French.
- Improved the final model achieves by 47% in F1 compared to the previously deployed FastText mode.
- Deployed the developed multilingual name extractor to production with overall latency of under 500 milliseconds.
Experience
Model Extraction Attack Using Counterfactual Explanation
LitNER | Literature Named Entity Recognition
https://github.com/meghanabhange/litNERHinglish Twitter Sentiment Detection | SemEval2020
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09820Wikipedia Textbook Assistant
https://github.com/meghanabhange/Wikipedia-Textbook-AssistantArtificial Insanity (Cards Against Humanity with Stable Diffusion) | Toptal Hackathon
I benchmarked performance in terms of quality and latency for DALLE and Stable Diffusion. Also, I deployed the final model on FastAPI to make it easier to integrate with the rest of the back end. The solution won the second prize in the Hackathon.
Education
Master's Degree (Ongoing) in Information Technology Engineering
École de Technologie Supérieure - Montreal, Canada
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University - Pune, India
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Pandas, Scikit-learn, SpaCy, TensorFlow
Tools
Slack, Named-entity Recognition (NER), Amazon SageMaker, ChatGPT
Languages
Python, SQL, Python 3
Frameworks
Django, Flask, Streamlit, Next.js
Storage
Data Pipelines, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Google Cloud
Platforms
Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Visual Studio Code (VS Code), DigitalOcean, AWS Lambda
Industry Expertise
Cybersecurity
Other
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, APIs, Text Generation, Language Models, Data Engineering, Chatbots, OpenAI, AI Design, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Large Language Models (LLMs), Computational Linguistics, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), OpenAI GPT-3 API, Research, Transfer Learning, BERT, Signals, Information Theory, Custom BERT, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, FastAPI, Inference API, Speech Recognition, Web Development, DaVinci, Systems, Cryptography, Information Technology, Prompt Engineering, LangChain
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