Hello!

I'm Rishab Mallick, a Machine learning practitioner

Get in touch rishabmallick6@gmail.com

Background

I'm currently working at Unify as a ML Engineer.

When I'm not in front of a computer screen, I'm probably pumping iron, cruising on my motorcycle, or staring at stray cats from the window.

Experience
AI Engineer @ Unify (YC W23)
May 23 - Current
• AI Bench - Designed methodology & implemented runtime performance benchmarking with CI/CD infra on GCP.
• Model Hub - Created LLM provider router supporting Perplexity, Replicate, OpenAI, Anyscale, Vertex AI etc.
• Ivy Framework - Integrated Ivy into OSS repos - BentoML, Seldon-Core, Seldon-MLServer, MMPretrain. Added new functions, reviewed PRs, ensuring code quality & compliance with standards.
• Transpiler - Remodeled source code generation logic to comply with torch.fx convention for easier debugging. Researched TPU support for transpilation & framework-agnostic (PyTorch, Jax, TensorFlow) profiler.
• Enterprise Demos Lead - Collaborated with the Head of Operations on sales calls & market research for future product direction. Managed cross-functional teams, oversaw development, & defined demo objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Executed public demos showcasing value prop - XGBoost, MMPretrain.
Founding AI Engineer @ Small Joys
November 21 - Aug 23
• Inclusive AI - Addressed unintended bias in NLP, enhancing model robustness against adversarial text, surpassing Google & AWS sentiment analysis on internal datasets. Deployed inference API on AWS.
• Health - Pilot project for predicting behavioral health from therapy sessions through multiple modalities.
• Insights - Easy-to-digest information for therapists from user journals through Themes & Journal Abstraction AI.
• ScreenerOMR - Constructed a Python package for extracting pertinent data from scanned medical screeners.
• Annotation Framework - Implemented annotator cohorts of 10, & devised labeling process for golden data of sentiment, emotion, ACEs, and ICD-10. Wrote classification data augmentation with GPT-3.
Student Software Developer @ Google Summer of Code
June 21 - August 21
• GenomicInfo - Engineered a framework for rapid genomic data extraction from C. Elegans papers for WormBase, employing a hybrid method of regular expressions, term dictionaries, & BERT NER.
• Impact - Cut manual biocuration time from hours to minutes, while uncovering overlooked data from older papers. Published `Accelerated variant curation from scientific literature using biomedical text mining` in microPublication Biology with Valerio Arnaboldi, Paul Davis, Stavros Diamantakis, Magdalena Zarowiecki, & Kevin Howe.
April 21 - June 21
• Masked Face Recognition - Crafted a facial recognition system compatible with masks for law enforcement authorities, tailored for low-end devices in collaboration with the image processing team.
ML Solutions Intern @ Myraa Technologies
September 20 - March 21
• Detection - Developed custom object detection for low-end wearable devices in manufacturing - TFLite, Android.
• e-Proctor - Built online exam e-proctor with facial recognition and features tracking, and gadget detection.
• CADAnalyzer - Programmed engineering drawing comparison tool for universities.
• Explorative POCs - Car damage diagnosis system on low data, & usage of privacy-preserving DL with PySyft.
Data Analyst Intern @ Tata Steel
August 20 - September 20
• Analysis - Developed scripts to rectify discrepancies in geographical data for local dealers utilizing mapping APIs.
View My Resume
Others

Rishab Mallick, Valerio Arnaboldi, Paul Davis, Stavros Diamantakis, Magdalena Zarowiecki, Kevin Howe

microPublication Biology June 2022

Received IGNITE 2015 award by the former President of India, Pranab Mukherjee, for the idea ’Pay as you weigh’ - one of 31 innovations selected from across India.
Patent - 1189/KOL/2015

National Innovation Foundation November 2015

Awarded for engineering best solution to curb wildlife trafficking among 12 other finalists.

WWF November 2019

Recognized for building an app for live sign language prediction during a 24-hr hackathon - one of 10 finalists from east India.

Association for Computing Machinery February 2020
Skills