Ashwini Tonge
Lead Data Scientist
Roseland, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolAshwini Tonge is a Lead Data Scientist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and nearly a decade of hands-on experience applying deep learning, NLP, and computer vision to real-world products across telecom and enterprise domains. She has driven end-to-end ML solutions at Verizon and ADP—translating product requirements into real-time model deployments, UI libraries, and production pipelines while also handling security scan remediation and prioritization. Her Ph.D. work produced publishable advances in privacy-aware tag recommendation and dynamic classifier selection, and an internship at Intel contributed to a US patent for age classification in surveillance systems. Comfortable in both research and engineering contexts, she has repeatedly improved model performance by 20–30% through careful feature engineering and model tuning. Based in New Jersey, she blends strong academic rigor with pragmatic delivery, mentoring peers and running knowledge-transfer sessions to raise team ML fluency.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 4.0 at Kansas State UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master's Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at University of North Texas
English, Hindi, Marathi
Stackoverflow
11reputation
367reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (2)
opencv6
feature-detection6
Github contributions (5)
ashwinitonge/privacy-aware-tag-rec
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ashwinitonge/deepprivate
Sep 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:108 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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