Headshot of Shamik Basu, AI Enabled Data Scientist based in Los Angeles

Open to full-time roles | Los Angeles, CA

Shamik Basu

AI Enabled Data Scientist

I ship production ML, RAG, and LLM systems with measurable impact: 72% lower cost on a 5M+ record/month pipeline, 27% better fraud detection, and 115x GPU speedup on CUDA architecture. MS Applied Data Science at USC (GPA 3.7). Available for data science, machine learning, and applied AI roles.

  • 2+ years production ML
  • MS Data Science, USC
  • 1st Place, UCLA SAIRS

Highlights

Featured projects

End-to-end builds with case studies, demos, and measurable outcomes.

1st Place
Hackathon, 24 hrs

EcoMate-AI

Multimodal agentic platform (Gemini 2.5 Flash) that turns receipts and activity into sustainability actions.

UCLA SAIRS
2025 winner
  • Gemini 2.5
  • CV
  • RAG
Line chart comparing CPU, naive CUDA, tiled CUDA, and cuBLAS execution time versus matrix size on a Tesla T4 GPU
Benchmark: tiled CUDA kernels reach up to 115x speedup over CPU.
115x faster
GPU Computing

Custom CUDA Library

Shared-memory tiled kernels with Python bindings, delivering 115x CPU and 14x PyTorch speedups on Tesla T4.

  • CUDA
  • C/C++
  • Python
Data Viz
Workflow Analytics

Smooth Operation

Atlassian Forge app with heatmaps, analytics, smart search, and vulnerability scanning for Jira and Confluence.

  • Forge
  • React
  • Jira

Experience

Impact-focused summaries. Full detail is in the resume PDF.

  1. Data Science Associate Intern

    Liquidity AI Capital | Los Angeles, CA

    Deployed production SLM inference in Docker with end-to-end LoRA fine-tuning for domain-specific financial inference.

  2. Data Science Associate Intern

    KCC Capital Partners | Los Angeles, CA

    Built an agentic LangChain pipeline for M&A target sourcing with LLM classification, web scraping, and structured extraction.

  3. Data Scientist

    Bajaj Finserv Health | Pune, India

    • 72% cost reduction
    • 5M+ records/mo
    • 92% accuracy

    Production RAG pipeline (LangChain + GPT-3.5) with Langfuse observability and Kafka event-driven inference.

  4. Associate Data Scientist

    Bajaj Finserv Health | Pune, India

    • +27% fraud accuracy
    • +22% efficiency

    Redesigned a production NER pipeline and shipped supervised models with fewer false positives.

  5. Data Engineer Intern

    Bajaj Finserv Health | Pune, India

    Scaled ETL to 10M+ records across 200+ features with C++/Trino/Docker and optimized SQL.

Education

Applied data science and computer science foundations.

University of Southern California

MS, Applied Data Science

Los Angeles, CA | Jan 2025 - Dec 2026 | GPA 3.7 / 4.0

  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Data Management

SRM Institute of Science & Technology

BTech, Computer Science

Chennai, India | 2018 - 2022 | GPA 3.46 / 4.0

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision
  • Probability & Queueing

Leadership

Community building and graduate mentorship at USC.

250+

Vice President

GRIDS, Graduate Data Science Club, USC

Lead analytics workshops, ideathons, and projects for a 250-member graduate data science community.

1:1

Graduate Mentor

USC Viterbi School of Engineering

Mentor graduate students on data science career paths, technical communication, and professional development.

Technical skills

Core tools and methods used in production work.

Python, SQL, R, C/C++, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spark, Trino, Kafka, Machine Learning, Statistics, Causal Inference, A/B Testing, NLP, NER, Forecasting, Tableau, Power BI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LoRA, RAG, LangChain, Multi-Agent Systems, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, CI/CD, Azure Synapse, Langfuse, Git

Languages & Databases

  • Python
  • SQL
  • R
  • C/C++
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Spark
  • Trino
  • Kafka

ML & Analytics

  • Machine Learning
  • Statistics
  • Causal Inference
  • A/B Testing
  • NLP
  • NER
  • Forecasting
  • Tableau
  • Power BI

Deep Learning & LLMs

  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Hugging Face
  • LoRA
  • RAG
  • LangChain
  • Multi-Agent

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • REST APIs
  • CI/CD
  • Azure Synapse
  • Langfuse
  • Git

Contact

Book a short intro call, or email me. I typically reply within 24 hours.

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15-30 minutes. Recruiters and hiring managers welcome.

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