2025 · Hackathon Win
1st Place - UCLA SAIRS Hackathon
Won the sustainability track with EcoMate-AI, a multimodal agentic platform built in 24 hours.
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Shamik Basu
AI Enabled Data Scientist
I ship production machine learning, RAG, and LLM systems that move real business metrics - 72% lower cost on a 5M+ record/month pipeline, 27% better fraud detection, and 115x GPU speedups. Currently an MS Data Science student at USC.
Off the clock, I play table tennis and football (soccer), and love playing the piano. Always happy to talk horror movies, anime, and sports.
2+ yrs production ML
MS Data Science @ USC
1st Place - UCLA SAIRS Hackathon
Work
Featured Projects
Impact-first builds across agentic AI, GPU computing, and applied ML. Each opens a full case study with the story, demo, and links.
Trend Pilot
May 2026 - Jun 2026
Agentic AI assistant for creator teams - catches trends, decides what to film, and assigns the work. Multi-agent system with GPT-4o VLM trend detection, shipped full-SDLC through CI/CD.
1st Place - UCLA SAIRS Hackathon 2025
EcoMate-AI
May 2025 - Jun 2025
Multimodal agentic platform (Gemini 2.5 Flash) that turns receipts, images, and activity into personalized sustainability actions - built in 24 hours.
Custom CUDA Library for CNN Pre-Processing
Jan 2026 - Feb 2026
Open-source CUDA library for CNN preprocessing - shared-memory tiled kernels and Python bindings delivering 115x CPU and 14x PyTorch speedups.
Smooth Operation
2025
Turns Atlassian workflow chaos into clarity with real-time flow graphs and heatmaps that reveal blockers, risks, and engagement.
Experience
Where I've Worked
Short and impact-first - full detail lives in my resume.
Data Science Associate Intern (Part-Time)
Apr 2026 - May 2026
Liquidity AI Capital · Los Angeles, CA
Deployed production SLM inference in Docker, fine-tuning open-source models end-to-end (tokenization + LoRA adapters) for optimized, domain-specific inference on financial data.
Data Science Associate Intern (Part-Time)
Jan 2026 - Mar 2026
KCC Capital Partners · Los Angeles, CA
Automated M&A target sourcing with an agentic LangChain pipeline chaining LLM entity classification, web scraping, and structured extraction to identify and rank strategic buyers.
Data Scientist
Nov 2023 - Dec 2024
Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India
Architected a production RAG pipeline (LangChain + GPT-3.5 Turbo) processing 5M+ medical records/month - cutting operational costs 72% at 92% extraction accuracy. Added Langfuse observability and Kafka event-driven inference for zero downtime.
Associate Data Scientist
Jul 2022 - Oct 2023
Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India
Redesigned the production NER pipeline to boost fraud identification accuracy 27% with fewer false positives, and shipped a supervised model that improved operational efficiency 22%.
Data Engineer Intern
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Bajaj Finserv Health · Pune, India
Scaled ETL and analytics to 10M+ records across 200+ features with a distributed C++/Trino/Docker system, optimized SQL, and disaster recovery.
Leadership
Community & Mentorship
Building data science communities and mentoring the next generation of graduate students.
Vice President
GRIDS - Graduate Data Science Club, USC
Sep 2025 - Present
Lead analytics workshops, ideathons, and projects for a 250-member graduate data science community.
Graduate Mentor
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Jan 2025 - Present
Mentor graduate students on data science career paths, technical communication, and professional development.
Education
Academic Background
University of Southern California
MS, Applied Data Science · Los Angeles, CA
Jan 2025 - Dec 2026 · GPA 3.7 / 4.0
Coursework: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Data Mining (MapReduce), Data Management.
SRM Institute of Science & Technology
BTech, Computer Science · Chennai, India
May 2018 - Jun 2022 · GPA 3.46 / 4.0
Coursework: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Probability & Queueing Theory.
Skills
Technical Stack
Languages & Databases
PythonSQLRC/C++PostgreSQLMongoDBSparkTrinoKafka
ML & Analytics
Machine LearningStatisticsCausal InferenceA/B TestingNLPNERForecastingTableauPower BI
Deep Learning & LLMs
PyTorchTensorFlowHugging FaceLoRARAGLangChainMulti-Agent
Cloud & DevOps
AWSDockerKubernetesREST APIsCI/CDAzure SynapseLangfuseGit
Contact
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