Swapneel Mehta

Phone: +33766069819 • E-mail: [email protected] • Address: 9 Rue des Chenes, 01630, France

EDUCATION
(Incoming) Centre for Data Science, New York University, USA 2019
• Doctor of Philosophy in Data Science with Kyle Cranmer and Rajesh Ranganath

D. J. Sanghvi College of Engineering (DJSCE), University of Mumbai, India 2014 - 2018

• Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering; GPA: 9.23

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Open-source contributions available at github.com/swapneelm 

Technical Student, European Org. for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva Mar ’18 - Present
• Investigating graph neural networks for efficient particle track reconstruction (similar to TrackML on Kaggle) using
collision data extracted from Monte Carlo simulations.
• Optimizing and extending the ‘DeepJet’ deep learning framework for jet physics, built using Tensorflow, Python,
and custom C++ extensions for multithreaded operations on systems using the CMS Software Environment.


Openlab Intern, European Org. for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva June ’17 - Aug ‘17
• Developed an ensemble of unsupervised learning models for anomaly detection in database connections using an
architecture for data streaming via Apache Hadoop (HDFS) and Spark; prototype available on Github.
• Published a first-author short paper, receiving a special mention in the machine learning track at 2nd Springer
International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing, Communication, and Security, 2018.


*(Remote) Research Intern, Dr. S. Sahasrabudhe, IIT-B, Mumbai Aug ’16 - May ‘17
• Automating the evaluation for 3D Modeling assignments based on a proposed framework by researchers at the
University of Torino (Italy) and learnings as a Course Instructor for the MOOC ‘Skill Development in Animation’
catering to over 5,000 participants on the IITBombayX platform.
• Published a first-author short paper at IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2018;
releasing the code as a Python library including a wrapper for the Blender 2.79b Python API.


Engineering Intern, Smokescreen Technologies, Mumbai Nov ’16 - Mar ‘17

• Combined low-latency network scans, hostname clustering, intelligent decoys, and automated deployment;
trademark feature integrated into the NASSCOM-DSCI award-winning IllusionBlack software, 3rd Gen., 2017.
• Built a proof-of-concept honeypot with ICS/SCADA services responding on open ports in a FreeBSD ‘jail’ using
open-source project ‘Conpot’; mentored 2 interns from IIT-Bombay.


Engineering Intern, Falkonry Software Solutions, Mumbai July ’16 - Sept ‘16
• Developed client API functions to enable real-time data streaming and subscription-based alerts in the three client
connectors released as open-source codebases in Java, Python and Javascript.
• Implemented test-driven paradigms for agile development and integrated the modules within the primary product
to support concurrency using multithreading and asynchronous calls.


Summer Intern, Microsoft Research, IIT Bombay, Mumbai May ’16 - July ‘16
• Created a Google Analytics Dashboard to track and monitor user interactions on the “Lokacart” Android e-
commerce application using the ‘Enhanced E-commerce’ SDK.
• Presented the project to Microsoft Research, as well as a reviewing committee comprising senior IIT faculty, and
successfully defended its merits (video available: bit.ly/iitblokacart).


Co-founder, Cutting Chai Developers, Mumbai Sept ’15 - May ‘16

• Founded a freelance web-development team working for 9 international clients including the Govt. of India,
offering free workshops to schools and colleges eventually founding the student chapter DJ Unicode; currently 70
members (~30 women) focused on open-source development (ccdev.in).

swapneelm.github.io
 Swapneel Mehta
PUBLICATIONS/TALKS
Slides and Publications available at swapneelm.github.io/presentations and Google Scholar


• DeepJet: A Machine Learning Framework for High-energy Physics


Tutorial at the CMS Machine Learning Workshop, July 2018;

Poster Presentation at the Machine Learning Summer School 2018, Spain;

Google Cloud Poster Award at the Deep Learning Indaba 2018, South Africa;

Poster Presentation at Nvidia GPU Tech Conference 2019, USA.


• DeepJet: A Portable Machine Learning Framework for High-energy Physics


Oral Presentation at the 2nd CERN IML Machine Learning Workshop, 2018;

Invited Talk, CVIT Lab, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India.

• Autograding Pipeline for 3D Modeling Assignments in MOOCs


Short Paper at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 2018.

• A Big Data Architecture for the Detection of Anomalies within Database Connection Logs
Short Paper, Special Mention at the 2nd Springer International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing,
Communication & Security, 2018.


• Reviewer, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), October 2018.




COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
• Mentor, The Grand Challenge, CERN/RCA: Guiding 4-5 teams of students from the Royal College of
Art in London on leveraging AI/ML for designing sustainable solutions in science for The Grand Challenge.


• Contributing Author, Open Source For You Magazine: Featured articles on Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning Docker, Puppet, MS Windows, and tutorials on Jekyll, NodeJS, Git, among others reaching over
60,000 readers till date (goo.gl/57NN6Y)


• Founding Member, DJ Unicode: Launched a student chapter undertaking open-source web and app
(Android) development projects jointly mentoring a team of ~70 sophomores and juniors with selections for Google
Summer of Code, international internships, and hackathon winners across the country (github.com/djunicode).


• Machine Learning Lead, Stanford Scholar Initiative: Led an international collaboration of students
and researchers in building scientific talks to make state-of-the-art research more accessible (scholar.stanford.edu).

• Vice-Chairperson, Literary Society: Organised debates, quizzes, Just-a-Minute; launched the College
Newsletter, leading a team of 25 student-reporters to contribute dozens of articles (djvu.in).


• Education Support Fellow, Make a Difference: Taught English and Mathematics to 4 underprivileged
students in the 6th and 7th grade for a year achieving ~20% average increase in their scores. Organised national
social awareness events as part of a team supported by Ms. Michelle Obama.



AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
• 2nd Prize, CodaLab Contest, Machine Learning in High-energy Physics Summer School, Oxford, 2018
• Economic Times Campus Stars Class of 2018 - Selected as one of India’s Top 33 Engineers
• Stanford Graduate School of Business, Reliance Scholarship Finalist 2017 (youngest finalist; $150,000)
• Indian Academies of Science Fellowship, 2017
• Google and Tata Trusts Scholarship, 2016
• HackDAIICT, 2017 - 1st Runners-up; offer for incubation by Indian Space Research Organisation
• Barclays Rise Hackathon, Envestnet Yodlee Award, 2016
• CodeShastra Hackathon Winners, 2017
• Computer Society of India TechNext Hackathon, IIT Bombay, Winners, 2017
• Chief Minister's Scholarship, Top 1% candidates in Higher Secondary Certificate (12th Grade), 2014

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