Akhil Lohia
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAkhil Lohia is an Applied Scientist II with nine years of experience applying machine learning and statistical modeling to large-scale internet products, currently driving ranking and merchant discovery on Amazon's Featured Merchant Algorithm team. He combines rigorous academic training—a MS in Data Science from Barcelona School of Economics and an economics degree from IIT Kanpur—with hands-on production work across Google, MakeMyTrip, and health-tech startup eka.care. His projects span recommendation and search systems, intent prediction, feature-store engineering on AWS Redshift, and medical document understanding, plus leading a high-impact chatbot that served hundreds of thousands of users. Akhil has bridged research and product throughout his career, contributing to academic studies on social networks and structural estimation at top universities before moving into industry. He’s a practitioner of deep learning in NLP and has taught PyTorch workshops at major industry conferences, signaling both technical depth and an ability to communicate complex ideas. Based in Bengaluru, he blends economist-style causal thinking with pragmatic ML engineering to deliver measurable product gains.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurMaster of Science (MS), Data Science, Master of Science (MS), Data Science at Barcelona School of EconomicsISC, ISC at Dr. Virendra Swarup Education Centre, Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur
English, Hindi, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
datasets10
data-labeling9
text-annotation9
python9
training-data9
machine-learning9
nuxt9
natural-language-processing9
vue9
data-augmentation9
snorkel8
weak-supervision7
code-first7
nlp6
ai6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alohia/fresenius-price
Apr 2024 - Apr 2026
Price calculator for MedTech
Contributions:5 PRs, 23 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
bgse-a-team/textmine
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
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